Charles CORDIER
"ne pas se départir de la naïveté dans le dessin ce qui amène au sentiment intime dans le portrait"Autograph letter signed about the sculptures of the Théâtre du Vaudeville
s. d. [vers 1867]|13.30 x 21.20 cm|une feuille
Long autograph letter signed by sculptor Charles Cordier to a painter friend regarding the sculptures of the Vaudeville Theatre, built at the corner of Boulevard des Capucines and Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, from January 1867 to April 1, 1869, commissioned by the City of Paris.
The majority of the sculptures and bas-reliefs had been entrusted to Emile Hébert, whose Italian cherubs were not to the taste of Charles Cordier, a great defender of French style: "Vaudeville should be represented by an adolescent receiving from artistic tradition the attributes of comedy, and what instead? Tiresome sculpture instead of creating French sculpture for a th
The majority of the sculptures and bas-reliefs had been entrusted to Emile Hébert, whose Italian cherubs were not to the taste of Charles Cordier, a great defender of French style: "Vaudeville should be represented by an adolescent receiving from artistic tradition the attributes of comedy, and what instead? Tiresome sculpture instead of creating French sculpture for a th
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