Maurice Renard Art Déco Bronze Plaque Femme À La Harpe 1927

Maurice Renard Art Déco Bronze Plaque Femme À La Harpe 1927Marcel Renard 1893 1974. French School Early 20th. Century. Art Dco Bronze Plaque. "Femme la Harpe" Depicting a female nude on one knee facing to the right playing a harp. An extremely fine example with good patina. 5. 3 by 5. 3 cms. Provenance: ex. Fellerman collection. French sculptor and medallist, Marcel Renard, studied first at Lyon under his father, the sculptor Leopold Renard and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He was the standard bearer

Century Bronze Plaque

William Gorman Wills

5 by 96cms

Printed on early wove paper

and Robin Darwin

Slight area of foxing upper right

Robert Barley Collection

continuing to make pottery in the Islamic style

The scene depicts a young woman seated on a bench in a garden looking at a songbird in a cage while she turns the handle of a music box

Imperial War Museum

According to notes on the V&A file the drawing appears to have been intended for reproduction in the Pall Mall Budget

Hannah Snell (1723-1792) in pursuit of her errant husband