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Pierrot.

  • ARTIST: George Gueyton

  • MEDIUM: Bronze,

    DATE: c.1880.

  • EDITION SIZE: Height 18 1/2 width 8 inches.

  • DESCRIPTION: Signed on base, Gueyton. Little is known of the artist's life. He was a prolific sculptor working the second half of the nineteenth century.<br><br> Pierrot, a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte, has his origins in the late 17th-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne. The name is a diminutive of Pierre, using the suffix -ot and derives from the Italian Pedrolino.

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  • CONDITION: Good condition.

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