Antoine Etex, Portrait Of Odilon Barrot (1844)
Lyon, France
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Material
Plaster
Style
Antique, French Antiques
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Description
ANTOINE ÉTEX (Paris 1808 - Chaville 1888)
Portrait of Odilon Barrot
1844
Plaster which a black patina
H. 23 cm
Signed: ETEX
Some loss of patina to the tip of the nose
In an incredibly crowed and talented field, Antoine Étex stands out as one of the great French sculptors of the nineteenth century. Works such as his giant 'Cain and his cursed family' (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) are mesmerising, and he was also a talented portraitist. Great artists do things at levels that are sometimes hard to believe and Étex is one of them. The features of Odilon Barrot in this portrait bust of term form (i.e. with squared off shoulders) are almost caressed into being. Etex’s marble version of Barrot (location unknown) was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1844 and received the following crit in the 'Revue de Paris':
'Of the four busts that Mr. Etex exhibited, the busts of Mr. Sapey and Mr. Odilon Barrot are the most remarkable. Mr. Étex, for whom the difficulties of execution do not seem to exist, strives above all to capture the intellectual expression of the model and to show us their character with the help of physiognomy. The busts of MM. Sapey and Odilon Barrot have not only a very real likeness, they are also perfectly alive. This is indeed the fine and thoughtful physiognomy of the political tactician, like the somewhat Olympian look of the orator who is about to unleash the thunderbolts of his speech. The bust of Mr. Odilon Barrot, by the same artist, shows the flexibility of his talent. We would perhaps have liked a little more study in the bunches of hair and in general throughout the upper part of the head, which seems to us to be treated with too masterful a simplicity.' (F. De La Faloise in the Revue de Paris, 1844, p. 211)
Odilon Barrot (1791-1873) was a French lawyer and politician who was intimately involved in every political turmoil in France from 1820 to 1870 (and there were many!). A liberal, and by nature a constitutional monarchist, he played an important role in the creation of the July Monarchy and was one of those who physically escorted Charles X out of France. Barrot reached the apex of his political career under the presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, as Minister of Justice and President of the Council of Ministers under the Second Empire. Barrot worked tirelessly keep the government as liberal as possible, but ultimately failed in tempering Napoleon’s authoritarian tendencies, eventually accusing the emperor of high treason. After the fall of the empire he was nominated by Adolphe Thiers, president of the Third Republic, to the position of President of the Council of State. Étex, the sculptor, and Barrot and the lawyer and politician, were good friends.
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