François Félix Roubaud (1824 -1876) after Jean-Jacques dit J - Lot 133

François Félix Roubaud (1824 -1876) after Jean-Jacques dit James Pradier (1790-1852) Love and Psyche Model created in 1850 White marble group Signed 'PRADIER Localized and dated 'PARIS 1855'. H. 47 cm AL-EJ Minor accidents to fingers and feet Related work : -James Pradier, L'Amour et Psyché, before 1852, plaster, inscription J PRADIER. Pte de Roubaud, H. 42 x W. 25 x D. 20 cm, Bourg-en-Bresse, Musée de Brou, inv. 879.4 ; - James Pradier, L'Amour et Psyché, 1850, bronze group, inscription J PRADIER Propriété de F.F. Roubaud, H.43 x 2 7,4 cm, Bourg-en-Bresse, musée de Brou, n°inv.1995-3.1. Related literature: -Thirty nineteenth century european sculptures. Thirtieth anniversary exhibition shepherd gallery, October 15th . November 30th, 1996 , p.26 ; -Claude Lapaire, James Pradier et la sculpture française de la génération romantique, catalog raisonné, Paris, Edition SIK-ISEA/5 continents, 2010, model number 353, pp. 387-388. The Amour et Psyché group was the last work on which the celebrated Romantic artist James Pradier worked before his death in 1852. He had planned to produce a marble version. The plaster model was sold under no. 7 at the auction held after his death on July 26, 1852. It was acquired by François Félix Roubaud, one of his last pupils, who created the bas-relief of La Poésie légère after one of his models for his tomb. Roubaud executes a marble group of Amour et Psyché after the master's model presented in 1858 in Blois. ( L'Artiste, vol LXII, 1859, p.83. Roubaud also had bronze proofs made, on which he inscribed Propriété de F.F. Roubaud next to Pradier's name.