ULTRARARE Catalog 1867 F. BARBEDIENNE Bronzes DArt Start Price USD 1,500.00 Current Price USD 1,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, July 18, 2008 End Time Friday, July 25, 2008 Location Los Angeles, CA See more about 'ULTRARARE Catalog 1867 F. BARBEDIENNE Bronzes DArt' Description E N T H U S I A S T We purchase American Artist Estates as well as American art libraries and our goal is to provide, through eBay, a constantly replenished veritable "candystore" of rare and out-of-print books and catalogs for the lover of American prints and paintings... The item you are bidding on is: Original F. Barbedienne Catalogue " Bronzes D' Art / Maison Industrielle/ Recompenses Obtenues Dans Les Expositions Universelles de Londres et de Paris " Cover listing many Grandes and Gold Medals, naming agents in London, Liverpool and Holland , 1867, 8vo size softcover, good++ but fragile condition, 60 pages, listing offerings from this bronze foundry. Most of the catalog is devoted to bronze figurines and busts--100-200 line drawings along with descriptions and prices. Schiffer very successfully reprinted the 1886 catalog -- this is the only early catalog of which we are aware. Very valuable to the historian or entrepeneur who wishes to republish same. Please note, in response to inquiries, that we will not sell photocopies of this catalog. We have thousands of happy customers all around the world! Thank you for your WONDERFUL Feedback! We are downsizing a large art library--please see our other listings. Items purchased may, when practical, be shipped together to achieve lower aggregate shipping expense. Born in 1810 in Saint-Martin-de-Fresnay in Calvados, Barbedienne , in 1838, went into partnership and started to manufacture bronzes. His new firm, under the name of Collas & Barbedienne, specialized in antique reproductions and developed new processes for patinations and colored bronzes. At first the firm produced reproductions of antiquities, including the Venus de Milo, and then sought out models by living artists. The Maison Barbedienne is best known for its foundry, where many sculptures by Barbedienne himself, as well as those after renowned artists were cast. Their first casting contract was signed with Rude on March 22, 1843. This brought them international acclaim and by the latter part of the nineteenth century, the firm of Barbedienne became France's leading manufacturer of artistic bronzes. By 1847 he had established a factory for the production of bronze works in Paris, where in addition to sculptures he produced silver and reproduction furniture in a variety of styles. In 1850 he was commissioned to furnish the main rooms of the Hotel de Ville in Paris. In that same year he was commissioned to furnish the Paris Town Hall for which he was awarded the medaille d'honneur at the Paris Exhibition in 1855. He was directly associated with Napoleon III when he supplied the candelabrum for the newly fitted and furnished apartments in the Louvre. They exhibited at the London Exhibition of 1851 a reduced size reproduction of Ghiberti's principal door for the Baptistery in Florence. By the time that Collas died in 1859, Barbedienne employed some 300 workers, who produced as many as 1,200 subjects, including the work of Michelangelo, Luca Della Robbia and Antoine-Louis Barye, as well as making busts of historical notables (e.g. Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin). And possessed a specialized field for casting bronze monuments. From around 1860 to the 1880's Barbedienne was experimenting with champleve and cloisonne enamels to achieve a production technique that would compete with the flood of oriental imports from Japan. There is a champleve enamel and gilt-bronze vase and tripod by Barbedienne in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Barbedienne worked from his own designs as well as those of other leading artists. After 1860 the absence of Collas left Barbedienne the sole master of the business. In 1886 he was awarded the Jean Goujon Gold Medal by the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale. After the death of Barye in 1876, Barbedienne bought 125 models by Barye at a sale, and cast in a number of models marked with his initials. He exported a significant portion of his manufacturing, though rumor says all them. Barbedienne died on March 21, 1892. The Barbedienne Company published a certain number of commercial catalogs in which were listed bronze castings of antique or contemporary works in many dimensions. The selection was considerable, from sculptures of the Parthenon to Michelangelo's Moise, from full and half size versions and details of the baptismal doors in Florence to Bosio's Henry IV, from the Chantuer Florentin by Paul Dubois to Mozart enfant by Barrias, and from busts by David d'Angers, to works by Aizelin, Carrier-Belleuse, Clesinger, and Gardet, not to mention the clocks, lights, decorative furnishings, and "mantelpiece artworks" decorated with enamel and other precious metals/materials. In the catalogs published before 1875 appeared the heading "Depot de la collection Barye ". TERMS: Buyer may pay by personal check or money order or PAYPAL [credit card-based charges through PayPal are now OK]. Buyer will receive a post-sale notice from eBay and from PayPal, each of which will contain all information required for payment. PAYMENT IS REQUIRED WITHIN 7 DAYS FROM END OF AUCTION. 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