Signed Patinated Bronze Bust of Napoleon I on Plinth with Eagle and Marble Base

Graceful even when standing still the Medium Bronze Eagle Bust on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Eagle Bust is crea...

Graceful even when standing still the Small Bronze Eagle Bust on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Eagle Bust is creat...

Jules Moigniez, Patinated Cast Bronze Figure of Eagle on marble Plinth. Jules Moigniez (French 28 May 1835 – 29 May 1894) was a French animalier sculptor who worked during the 19th c...

Neoclassical French bronze bust of Napoleon mounted on marble base.

This strikingly naturalistic bronze sculpture was created in Florence in 1895. The bust depicts an elderly man, most likely a farm worker, carrying a heavy sack of grain over his shoulder. He wears an old slightly ragged shirt which is open at his chest, revealing his thin body underneath. The man looks out into the distance on the left, his eyebrows slightly furrowed. His mouth is open as though he is breathing heavily with the strain of the work or calling out to someone unknown to the viewer. The sculptor has accurately rendered every detail, with great truth to reality. The faint stubble on the man's chin and the wrinkles on his face and hands are faithfully portrayed. In its naturalistic style and its everyday, unidealised subject-matter, this bronze may be described as a work of Realism. The Realist movement flourished in the arts in Europe in this period, the 19th Century. The bust is signed ‘G Rossi...

Decorate a man's office or study with this elegant antique bust. Created in France circa 1950, and built of bronze, the bust stands on a black granite base and depicts French emperor...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Flying Eagle on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Bronze Eagle is created...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Flying Eagle on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Bronze Eagle is created...

Mr. Pattison was educated at the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, Yale and the Yale School of Fine Arts. (B. 1916 - 1999) In 1939, he was granted Yale's first traveling fellowship, enabling him to study and work in China and Japan for 12 months. Mr. Pattison's many other prestigious prizes included the Logan, Eisendrath, and Pauline Palmer Awards from the Art Institute of Chicago. The Logan prize, awarded in 1942, was for a bronze titled "Kneeling Women." In 1951 Mr. Pattison placed first in the Metropolitan Museum's contemporary American sculpture show. Between 1940 and 1970 alone, Mr. Pattison had 10 one-man shows in Chicago. His work is on display in some of the world's most renowned museums, including the Art Institute; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and the Israeli State Museum in Jerusalem. His public commissions include installations for the Mayo Clinic...

Hermann Siedentop (1864-1943), Braunschweig sculptor during an air raid died, life-size bust of a man, brown patinated bronze on marble base, signed on the reverse. "H. Siedentop, B...