The Osenat auction house offered, last Thursday in Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), several objects that decorated the Juliette Récamier room.
This woman of letters who died in 1849 had opened a Parisian salon in which the most prominent personalities met.
Among the works sold at the auction, a white marble statue soared for 918,720 euros, reports La République de Seine-et-Marne.
[RESULT] World record for Joseph Chinard at @OsenatSVV: The Silence of the neoclassical sculptor won €918,720!
The sculpture sat enthroned in Juliette Récamier's bedroom, a high place of social life of the Directory and the July monarchy.https://t.co/NnqzyUwCrX
— The Gazette Drouot (@gazette_drouot) December 5, 2022
Access to this content has been blocked to respect your choice of consent
By clicking on "
I ACCEPT
", you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners
I ACCEPT
And to better remunerate 20 Minutes, do not hesitate to accept all cookies, even for one day only, via our "I accept for today" button in the banner below.
More information on the Cookie Management Policy page.
This sculpture by Joseph Chinard (1756-1813) and called “Le Silence” represents a pensive young woman, draped in an antique tunic.
According to the magazine Interenchères, it is a copy of a statue made by Louis XIV Pierre Le Gros.
Estimated between 400,000 to 500,000 euros
The work rests on a mahogany plinth and features an inscription in golden letters, which makes it the guardian of sleep and the allegory of silence.
The sculpture was estimated between 400,000 to 500,000 euros.
Sold for nearly 920,000 euros, it becomes the most expensive work of Joseph Chinard in the world, specifies La République de Seine-et-Marne.
Company
Oise: A very rare car from the gendarmerie sold at auction
World
The “Fortune Pink” diamond sold for more than 28.6 million euros at auction
Melun
Ile-de-France
Paris
Auction
Art