19th Century French Polychrome Spelter Sculpture of Philosopher Holding Book

A handsome and high quality French 19th century patinated Bronze statue of a Aristotle. This wonderful statue is raised on a mottled rectangular base finished in a wonderful and most...

A finely modeled 19th-century French bronze sculpture depicting Zeno of Elea, the ancient Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher celebrated for his paradoxes concerning motion, plurality, an...

A finely cast bronze sculpture of an expressive classically draped Greek scholar seated on a curule chair holding a lyre in one hand and an an open scroll in the other, both symb...

Figure seated on rock work wearing a crown.

A refined and highly decorative late 19th century bronze and red granite sculpture depicting a contemplative professor, scholar or philosopher, executed with strong academic characte...

An antique buff terracotta statue depicting a Renaissance figure possibly by Blanchard. We are also selling a group of 3 similar figures as well as ...

A patinated cast bronze statue of a classically draped Greek scholar sitting sideways on a Klismos chair with the trademark griphons as front leg supports, the subject holding a pen in his right hand and an open scroll on the other left signed "Moreau" inscribed on one side of the chair. There are no visible foundry marks. Presumably the signature stands for Mathurin Moreau, a 19 Century French sculptor born 1822, and son of noted sculptor Jean Baptiste Moreau. In 1841, the 19 year old Mathirin entered the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and, the following year, won the Second Grand Prix de Rome with his sculpture Diodemus removing the Palladium. Several of his works remain on public display in Paris, among them on the facade of the Gare du Nord...

A very fine and well accomplished large bronze study by the Spanish artist and sculptor Justo de Gandarias (Spanish 1846 – 1933) entitled the Musician. It depicts a very pleasing co...

Sculpture - Miguel de Cervantes - 19th Century. Gilded bronze sculpture from the late 19th century. Height: 23 cm.

Bronze Grecian figure of a seated man with a beard wearing a toga and holding a paper with a theatrical mask on side of base (probably French, 19th Ce...