Sculpted bas-relief used as a model in the “ABC des travaux manuels” published by Hetzel in 1912.
[Signed EF and dated lower left, signed in ink and dated on the back June 24, 1907].
Bas-relief (230 x 340 mm), frame with gilded wood elements (350 x 460 mm); one crack due to woodworking, some soiling.
Charming bas-relief in carved wood by E.-J. Faix, author of the A-B-C des travaux manuels. A guide for amateurs. Menuiserie - Découpure - Sculpture - Modelage - Tour - Serrurerie (Librairie Hetzel, 1912).
The author was an “amateur who had become an accomplished master, a consummate artist”, read the columns of the newspapers promoting the book. In fact, Faix states in the introduction to the sculpture section: “Not for a single moment did it enter into our mind to give our readers a course in sculpture [...] having never learned even the first notions of this art.”
This bas-relief is reproduced twice in the book. The first time as a frontispiece in a drawn composition, the second time reproduced as a photograph (figure 199 p.113) to serve as inspiration for student sculptors.
Entitled La Balançoire (The Swing) and embellished with a set of cords, this antique-style scene combines a number of different elements: three scantily-clad women and three animated children, Greek temple perspectives and colonnades, stairs, tree trunk, exotic plant, foliage, grass, basin and vase.
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