George Charles Coudray Bronze Sculpture of Tahoser
$7,500.00
Our client's fine bronze casting of Tahoser after the original model by Georges Charles Coudray (French, 1862–1944), circa 1895, features a light and dark brown patina with gilt highlights and brass nameplate. This popular work depicts an Egyptian woman playing the harp, inspired by a character in The Romance of a Mummy, a 1863 historical novel set in Ancient Egypt. The original statue was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1892. Stamped ''Société des Bronzes de Paris".
According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Coudray was born in Paris, Coudray matriculate at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1882. In 1893 he won the Prix de Rome with a medal of Orpheus at the Gates of Hell. While staying at the Villa Medici in Rome, Coudray designed a steel medallion of the same subject, which may have been the obverse of this medal. The Paris Mint purchased the issuing rights in 1899, going on to sell over 4500 copies at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, where it won a silver prize.
