The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 2031

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

Object details

Image size: h 8.4cm x w 9.9cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: corners the negative clipped; paper cut unevenly along the right and left edge

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-2840/2

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 2031

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.