This 19th-century bronze sculpture depicts a Borghese shell nymph and was made after the sculptor Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720).

The Borghese shell nymph was one of the sculptures present in the gardens of Versailles on the Latona parterre, now housed in the Louvre.

The sculpture bears the signature of the founder Barbedienne.

Bronze with a brown patina.
This bronze statue is located in the Reims Museum.

Dimensions:

Height: 13cm
Width: 13cm x 11cm

Maison Barbedienne was a famous 19th-century foundry, which quickly gained renown for its editions of statues and art objects. A bronze workshop, the company also worked with other crafts and associated its name with a wide variety of works, particularly in furniture. Present at all the Universal Exhibitions of its time, Maison Barbedienne was regularly recognized with awards, notably at the 1855 Universal Exhibition where it received the Grand Gold Medal.

Bronzier and Parisian publisher, Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) founded a company in 1839 in collaboration with Achille Collas, inventor of the process for the mathematical reduction of sculpture. Thanks to this revolutionary process, they opened the doors to unprecedented production. Under the trade name "Collas et Barbedienne," they specialized in reproductions of ancient works and developed new chemical processes to color and patinate bronzes. As a good representative of the Romantic generation, Ferdinand Barbedienne made it his mission to democratize art by creating numerous copies of ancient works and by stimulating the dissemination of the works of his contemporaries. Many famous sculptures were thus edited by the Barbedienne foundry. Throughout his life, Barbedienne collaborated with the greatest artists, sculptors, and ornamentalists of his time, such as Édouard Lièvre, Ferdinand Levillain, Attarge, Aizelin, Barye, and Fremiet.

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