Auguste Clésinger
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Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter.
Jean Baptiste Clésinger dit Auguste, 1814 1883
Leda and the swan, Musée de Picardie, Amiens
Woman Bitten by a Serpent, 1847, marble, Musée d'Orsay
Euterpe, muse of Music, funerary monument at the grave of Frédéric Chopin, Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by Auguste Clésinger (1850)
Woman Bitten by a Serpent
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Woman Bitten by a Serpent is an 1847 marble sculpture by Auguste Clésinger, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It depicts a violently contorted nude among a bed of flowers, with a small snake latched
Auguste Clésinger
…Paris Salon of 1843 with a bust of vicomte Jules de Valdahon and last exhibited there in 1864. At the Salon of 1847, he created a sensation with his Woman Bitten by a Serpent, produced from life-casts from his model Apollonie Sabatier (the pose being particularly suitable for such a method), thus reinforcing the scandal with…
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