Antique French Art Nouveau Bronze Female Bust "Phryne" Emanuel Villanis Circa 1900 Redo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

75" tall X 4

Circa 1890

and then at the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Cumaná

Antique French Art Nouveau Bronze Female Bust "Phryne" Emanuel Villanis Circa 1900 Redo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo deAntique, Art Nouveau bronze of a beautiful maiden in the Neo Classical manner by Emmanuel Villanis, Circa 1900. The bronze, titled "Phryne" depicts a beautiful Neo Classical maiden, titled to the front on the socle. The bust meant to be an interpretation of the ancient Greek beauty Phryne, daughter of Epicles and a model of a number of ancient Greek artists sculptors. The bronze made by the lost wax (cire perdue) method and having the circular