Jean-François Raffaëlli
French, 1850 - 1924
LES FORGERONS BUVANT
signed J.F. Raffaëlli (lower left)
foundry mark: Eug. Blot Paris
cast bronze with dark brown patina
9 7/8 by 7 3/4 in.
25.1 by 19.7 cm.
25.1 by 19.7 cm.
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Further images
This rare bronze is based on Raffaëlli’s well-known painting of the same title in the Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai.
Provenance
David & Constance Yates, New YorkLiterature
Gustave Kahn, “Les éditions Blot,” Le Siècle, December 29, 1905, p. 1Arsène Alexandre, Jean-François Raffaëlli, Paris, 1909, p. 230
Catalogue note
This rare bronze plaquette is based on Raffaëlli’s well-known painting of the same title in the Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai. As the poet, Gustave Kahn comments in his review of the Eugène Blot exhibition, the subject of the painting, which depicted two workers from an iron forge, may have inspired Raffaëlli to cast them in the same medium as their métier.