Antique 19thC French Naturalism Terracotta Sculpture "La Source" Putti Sculpture by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse,1864 Decorative Arts The son of a painter

The son of a painter and decorator well known amongst the leading Artists of his day

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with whom he shared the view that light is the real subject of landscape art

Antique 19thC French Naturalism Terracotta Sculpture "La Source" Putti Sculpture by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse,1864 Decorative Arts The son of a painterAn original and authentic terracotta figurative group sculpture, by Albert Carrier Belluse (1824 1887), titled "La Source", 1864. The sculpture depicts two putto or cherubs wearing laurel wreaths in their hair and engaged playfully around a small rustic water barrel. One putto with his finger to his lips making a "shush" gesture, the other putto leans forward with his hand reaching in to the flowing water from the barrel. The figures are seated on a