The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 2030

Two statuettes of "Dancing Fishermen" by Francisque-Joseph Duret

Object details

Image size: h 8.0cm x w 9.8cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: Art Union page

Physical description: in Art Union 1846

Provenance:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Charles W. Millard III (Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Charles W Millard III

Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Object owner number: 1986.466

Supporting images

This object is part of Schaaf no. 2030

Two statuettes of "Dancing Fishermen" by Francisque-Joseph Duret

Keywords: Sculpture

Francisque-Joseph Duret (1804-1865) was a French sculptor whose preferred medium was bronze. The full and correct title for this pair of statuettes is, "Young Fishermen Dancing the Tarantella". One fisherman is playing a tambourine, while the other is playing castanets, although the statuette Talbot photographed appears to have lost its tambourine. Although Duret's favoured medium was bronze, its not certain that the statuettes Talbot photographed were made of bronze. Note the cloth background behind the statuettes in this photograph.