France – Femme jouant de la lyre – Ovide Yencesse – Art Nouveau Ovide Yencesse (1869–1947)Obverse:A young woman in classical drapery is seated in profile to the right, playing a lyre held before her. Behind her rises an olive tree, while at right a balustrade opens onto a distant landscape with hills and water. The composition is executed in exceptionally delicate low relief, with the figure, vegetation and landscape merging into an atmospheric decorative scene.Signed in the exergue:“OVIDE YENCESSE”Reverse:Blank, as issued.Ovide Yencesse was a French sculptor and medallist associated with the renewal of French medallic art around 1900. This exact composition, entitled Femme jouant de la lyre, is represented in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The museum records its subject in detail as a seated woman with lyre, an olive tree, balustrade, seascape and distant hills
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