Louis DALPAYRAT - Lot 105

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Louis DALPAYRAT - Lot 105
Louis DALPAYRAT Portrait of Sir Richard Wallace Oval enamel plate dated 1884, annotated on back 9 x 7 cm Richard Wallace (1818 - 1890) was the illegitimate son of Agnes Jackson née Wallace and Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford. He took his mother's name and became a collector and philanthropist, rubbing shoulders with great writers and artists: Flaubert, Théophile Gautier, Eugène Delacroix and Baudelaire. Renowned in London for the eponymous museum housing his collection, he was equally renowned in Paris, where he gave Parisians the fountains that would bear his name. After the 1870 war and the Commune, Paris was in any case devastated, some people ate rats or cats, the aqueducts that supplied the capital with water were largely destroyed and there were fears of overconsumption of alcohol, particularly wine, which had become cheaper than water. He offered 50 fountains to be "placed in busy thoroughfares, such as the outer and inner boulevards, but also near railway stations". The work was sculpted by Charles-Auguste Lebourg, and cast in VAL D'OSNE.
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