After Emmanuel Villanis

After EMMANUEL VILLANIS (France, 1858 - 1914).
Table lamp Tifanny's style.
Leaded glass and patinated bronze.
In working order.
Measurements: 62 x 35 x 35 cm.
This table lamp belongs to the wide repertoire of decorative objects produced in the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries under the influence of Art Nouveau taste and the international diffusion of the modernist decorative arts. The piece combines a sculptural base in patinated bronze with a leaded glass shade in the Tiffany tradition, configuring a type of hybrid object that integrates sculpture, lighting and domestic decoration.
The base takes the form of a female figure directly inspired by the sculptural model L'Otage, the work of French sculptor Emmanuel Villanis. A French sculptor of Italian origin associated with the Art Nouveau movement, Emmanuel Villanis studied at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, where he counted among his teachers Odoardo Tabacchi. After his return from Italy, Villanis settled in 1885 in Montmartre, a Parisian neighborhood he would never leave. One of the most productive sculptors of the late 19th century, he was an artist of his time, reflecting in his work heroines of opera, literature, sacred history and mythology, such as Aida, Judith, Delilah, Lucretia or Cendrillon. His pieces were exported from Paris all over the world, especially to the United States. Villanis. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français between 1886 and 1910, being awarded an honorable mention in 1892, and participated in the Universal Exhibitions of Paris in 1889, where he was awarded a prize, and Chicago in 1903. Today Villanis is mainly represented in private collections.