19.00 USD
Lovely sculpture from the Salon of 1910, by René Albert Baucour (1878-1948), French sculptor. Griserie is a word meaning exaltation, but in the case of our maenad, describes a drunken exaltation, fitting for an acolyte of Bacchus!
Belle Epoque French composer, Jacques Offenbach, whose music so represented the period, composed La Périchole, an opéra bouffe in three acts. In it, was the song, Air de la Griserie, If you follow our link to Youtube, you can enjoy gifted singer Mathilde Rossignol performing a version of this "ariette" in a small academic setting. This may give us an idea (communicated to us through the popular music of the era!), of how a visitor to the Salon of 1910 may have related to this work of art!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5pW7PqE_c
We recently came across four wonderful images of Belle Epoque "Bacchantes" in sculpture, and will feature them in our shop this week.
A lovely card in very nice, unposted condition. Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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