La tempête et les Nuées (Primary Title)
The Storm and the Clouds (Translation)

Siot-Décauville, French (Paris), 1881 - 1926 (Foundry)
Raoul François Larche, French, 1860 - 1912 (Sculptor)

modeled 1896
French
Bronze dark brown patina
Overall: 34 × 25 × 22 in. (86.36 × 63.5 × 55.88 cm)
2016.140
Inscribed (on base): RAOUL. LARCHE.
Marked (within roundel, on base): SIOT DECAUVILLE FONDEUR PARIS
Gift of Benedict Silverman
Catalogue illustre de Peinture et Sculpture, Salon de 1896, Societe des Artistes Francais, Baschet, Paris, 1896, no. 3577;

Catalogue illustre de Peinture et Sculpture, Salon de 1899, societe des Artistes Francais, Baschet, Paris, 1899, no.3929;

Andre Michel, "La Sculpture Decorative aux Salons," L'Art et Decoration, July-Dec 1899, vol. VI, p.38;

Catalogue illustre officiel de l'exposition decennale des Beaux-Arts, Baschet, Paris, 1900, no. 366;

Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau Sculpture, Rizzoli, NY, 1978, p. 43;

Dominique Renoux, "Raoul Larche, statuaire (1860-1912)," Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de l'art Francais, 1990, pp. 243-276;

Pierre Kjellberg, Bronzes of the 19th Century. Dictionary of Sculptors, Schiffer, PA, 1994, p. 414;

Ursula Bode et al, Paris: Belle Epoque, 1880-1914, Recklinghausen, Germany, 1994, p. 473, fig. 581;

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