Statuette in Ivory, and Objects in Gold and Silver, by Froment-Meurice of Paris
Lithograph with designs by Froment-Meurice (1802-1855), French goldsmith, working in a free and naturalistic manner in the tradition of Mannerist and Baroque masters, created by J.A. Vinter and published in 1852. The lithograph shows a sculpture in ivory of a female figure wearing braids on her hair and a white, draped garment that leaves her chest partly uncovered, standing on a shell, and running besides a young angel. Behind her is a large, shell-shaped bowl on a brown trunk with stylized, green leaves, and with a handle made up of scrolling, yellow branches with stylized, green leaves and bunches of red grapes, and with white human figures, half-dressed with draping garments, and angels with white bodies and golden leaves. To the sides of the ivory statuette in the center are several smaller sculptures, each with three children: to the left, three boys wearing hoods and holding an axe and a horn on their hands; to the right, your girls holding a basket with flowers and a pair of doves in their arms. A gold-and-silver statuette with a soldier, dressed in historic army clothes, holding a spade on one hand and a lozenge-shaped shield above his head, and a golden saltcellar (?) with scrolling motifs of gold, stylized, green leaves, and blue design motifs, lie in front of the larger sculptures with children.
Artwork Details
- Title: Statuette in Ivory, and Objects in Gold and Silver, by Froment-Meurice of Paris
- Lithographer: John Alfred Vinter (British, 1828–1905)
- Designer: After designs by François-Desiré Froment-Meurice (1802–1855)
- Date: ca. 1850–70
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 18 7/8 × 13 1/16 in. (48 × 33.1 cm)
- Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Museum Accession, Gift of Cornelius Vermeule, 1966
- Object Number: 66.760
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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