CHARLES-AUGUSTE FRAIKIN (BELGIAN 1817-1893) A RARE MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP 'THE CRADLE OF LOVE'
MID 19TH CENTURY
Carrara marble, sleeping child on shell set on a triform base with carved dolphins, signed, on a painted simulated marble octagonal pedestal
Group 65cm high, 79cm wide, 130.5cm high overall
Provenance:
Possibly the 4th Earl of Craven and thence by descent
Literature:
Edward MacDermott, "Routledge's Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park at Sydenham", G. Routledge & Company, 1854. PP.146.
Musee Fraikin De Herenthals : Offert Par L'artiste A Sa Ville Natale L'an 1891 : Catalogue De La Galerie 1891, publ. L. Bongaerts-Verbeeck Herenthals.
The Belgian sculptor Charles-Auguste Fraikin (1817-1893) was born in Herentals in Belgium. After a difficult childhood and an early career training to be an apothecary. he re-devoted his life instead to the study and production of sculture under Pierre Puyenbroeck. Just 6 months after enrolling in the Académie royale des beaux-arts Brussels he won the internal competition for sculpture and more public success followed swiftly. In 1845 at the Salon de Bruxelles the Queen of the Belgians recommended his work "L'Amour captif" to King Leopold I and Royal commissions followed.
The museum at Herentals devoted to his life and work was established by a bequest in his will- leaving the entirety of the plaster casts from his studio. In the gallery guide from 1891 the museum discusses this particular work: "No 11 Amour au Berceau". It recounts how the work came into being after a public lottery in 1850- won by Dr Lombard from Liege. Versions of it were also executed in various materials including, notably, for M. le Baron de Rotschild a Paris.
One of Fraikin's first public exhibitions of this composition was at the Great Exhibition of 1851 where his work was highlighted in Routledge's Guide in the description of the "French and Italian Modern Sculpture Court". His work was noted as being "graceful and delicate in the extreme" and being especially worthy of attention from visitors:
"M. Fraikin of Brussels, a sculptor who possesses as great a reputation among his fellow artists in Belgium as with amateurs and the public in general... "L'amour au Berceau" or "Cupid in his cradle" "Psyche" and a "Roman peasant woman" are works also by M Fraikin which will appeal to the sympathies of visitors of all age".
Exhibiting another version of this work at the 1855 l'Exposition Universelle in Paris he was rewarded with the patronage of Empress Eugenie, who had the group placed into her bedroom at the Tuileries Palace. Sadly, that example was lost in the Tuileries fire in 1871.
CHARLES-AUGUSTE FRAIKIN (BELGIAN 1817-1893) A RARE MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP 'THE CRADLE OF LOVE'
MID 19TH CENTURY
Carrara marble, sleeping child on shell set on a triform base with carved dolphins, signed, on a painted simulated marble octagonal pedestal
Group 65cm high, 79cm wide, 130.5cm high overall
Provenance:
Possibly the 4th Earl of Craven and thence by descent
Literature:
Edward MacDermott, "Routledge's Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park at Sydenham", G. Routledge & Company, 1854. PP.146.
Musee Fraikin De Herenthals : Offert Par L'artiste A Sa Ville Natale L'an 1891 : Catalogue De La Galerie 1891, publ. L. Bongaerts-Verbeeck Herenthals.
The Belgian sculptor Charles-Auguste Fraikin (1817-1893) was born in Herentals in Belgium. After a difficult childhood and an early career training to be an apothecary. he re-devoted his life instead to the study and production of sculture under Pierre Puyenbroeck. Just 6 months after enrolling in the Académie royale des beaux-arts Brussels he won the internal competition for sculpture and more public success followed swiftly. In 1845 at the Salon de Bruxelles the Queen of the Belgians recommended his work "L'Amour captif" to King Leopold I and Royal commissions followed.
The museum at Herentals devoted to his life and work was established by a bequest in his will- leaving the entirety of the plaster casts from his studio. In the gallery guide from 1891 the museum discusses this particular work: "No 11 Amour au Berceau". It recounts how the work came into being after a public lottery in 1850- won by Dr Lombard from Liege. Versions of it were also executed in various materials including, notably, for M. le Baron de Rotschild a Paris.
One of Fraikin's first public exhibitions of this composition was at the Great Exhibition of 1851 where his work was highlighted in Routledge's Guide in the description of the "French and Italian Modern Sculpture Court". His work was noted as being "graceful and delicate in the extreme" and being especially worthy of attention from visitors:
"M. Fraikin of Brussels, a sculptor who possesses as great a reputation among his fellow artists in Belgium as with amateurs and the public in general... "L'amour au Berceau" or "Cupid in his cradle" "Psyche" and a "Roman peasant woman" are works also by M Fraikin which will appeal to the sympathies of visitors of all age".
Exhibiting another version of this work at the 1855 l'Exposition Universelle in Paris he was rewarded with the patronage of Empress Eugenie, who had the group placed into her bedroom at the Tuileries Palace. Sadly, that example was lost in the Tuileries fire in 1871.
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