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Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger (22 October 1814 – 5 January 1883) was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter. Life. Leda and the swan, Musée de Picardie, Amiens. Woman Bitten by a Serpent, 1847, marble, Musée d'Orsay.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Woman Bitten by a Serpent (French: Femme piquée par un serpent) is an 1847 marble sculpture by Auguste Clésinger (1814–1883), now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It depicts a violently contorted nude among a bed of flowers, with a small snake latched onto her left arm.
Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger, dit Auguste Clésinger, né le 22 octobre 1814 à Besançon et mort le 6 janvier 1883 dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris 1, est un sculpteur et peintre romantique français, particulièrement connu en raison de ses liens avec George Sand, dont il a été le gendre, et de Frédéric Chopin, dont il a sculpté le tombeau.
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Clésinger produced a suggestive image of a naked woman writhing from the pain of a bite inflicted by the symbolic snake twisted around her wrist. As the dimpled flesh at the top of her thighs...
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Auguste Clésinger. Born: Besançon, 20 October 1814. Died: Paris, 5 January 1883. Nationality: French. Background: son of sculptor Georges Philippe Clésinger. Studies: with Bertil Thorvaldsen (1832, Rome) Career: 1847 – exhibits Woman Bitten by a Snake at Paris Salon. 1849 – awarded the Légion d’honneur.
Active Years: 1843 - 1865. Nationality: French. Genre: sculpture. Field: sculpture. Order Oil Painting. reproduction. Share: Auguste Clésinger lived in the XIX cent., a remarkable figure of French. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Auguste Clésinger (Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger; 22 October 1814 – 5 January 1883) was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter. He is perhaps best-known for Woman Bitten by a Snake.
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