Urgèle the Fairy (La Fée Urgèle)

1767 H: 7 15/16 in. (20.2 cm) Citation Source image

This statuary group was modeled after the design by Falconet. The scene is from the comic opera by Favart and Duni. A seated woman leans away from the kiss of a man. He is dressed in armour and is bending down reaching for her face with lips pursed. There are upturned baske...

Artifact

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39496
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Edmond F. Bonaventure [dealer], New York, by 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911; by bequest to Walters Art Musuem, 1931.
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en
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