Florentine Singer
by DUBOIS, Paul, Silver-plated bronze, height 155 cm
The Florentine Singer (which the artist’s notebooks allow us to relate to figures by Benozzo Gozzoli, Pinturicchio, and Lorenzo da Viterbo) earned Dubois the ‘m�daille d’honneur’ at the 1865 Salon. Highly representative, both in terms of its refined and pleasing appearance and in terms of the culture to which it refers, of a whole school of Second Empire sculpture, this was undoubtedly also one of the best-known works of the period.