Emile Leysalle
(France, Australia 1847–post 1902)
- Title
- Portrait bust of Mrs Gerald Marr Thompson
- Place of origin
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Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1892
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- terracotta
- Dimensions
-
59.2 x 42.5 x 30.0cm:
base; 21.5 x 21.5cm; base attached to work - information for display purposes only
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated below right shoulder on support, incised "Emile Leÿsalle/ Sydney 1892".
- Credit
- Gift of Mr H. Cole 1972
- Accession number
- 75.1972
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Eleanor Lucy Thomson (neé Cole) was the wife of Sydney University's Dean of Music and Art and critic for the 'Sydney Morning Herald', Gerald Marr Thompson.
- Bibliography (3)
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Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 22, 23 (colour illus.), 82. cat.no. 47
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Domain, 1987, (illus.). no catalogue numbers; not paginated
'Art Society's exhibition', pg. 3., The Sydney Morning Herald 17 Aug 1893, 17 Aug 1893, 3.
- Exhibition history (2)
-
Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Jan 1987–22 Feb 1989.
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003.
