Cyprian Godebski, Dream of Fame. dream of fame, after 1894

50.0 x 38.0 cm - cast bronze, chiseled, patinated 50 x 38 x 20 cm


Signed on the base: CYP Godebski
Condition: small cracks in the casting


Composition exhibited, mentioned and reproduced:


"World. Dwutygodnik Ilustrowany", 1890, R. 3, no. 20, p. 481.
b.a., Pariser Ateliers, "Allgemeine Kunstchronik ill. Zeitschr. für Kunst, Kunstgewerbe, Musik, Theater u. Litteratur," R. 17, 1893, pp. 130-131, il. s. 131.
b.a., Variété , "Bulletin polonais littéraire, scientifique et artistique / Association des anciens élèves de l'école polonaise," R. 19, 1894, no. 69, p. 95.
J. Bołoz-Antoniewicz, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Polish Art from 1764-1886, Lviv 1894, p. 43, cat. no. 401 (Mythological Group), il p. nlb.
A. Silvestre, Les nus au Salon de 1894 (Champs-Élysées), ed. Libraire E. Bernard & Cie, Paris 1894, pp. 105-108, il. p. nlb.
"Tygodnik Illustrowany," T IX, 1894, no. 25, p. 403.
L. Wasilkowski, Godebski, "Tygodnik Illustrowany", T XIII, 1898, no. 41, pp. 807-808, il. p. nlb. s. 807.
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1900, Warsaw 1901, p. 31.
A.Ryszkiewicz, Cyprian Godebski, Słownik Artystów Polskich, vol. II, Warsaw 1975, pp. 379- 384.
Kwiatkowska, Rzeźbiarze warszawscy XIX wieku, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 1995, p. 221.
Georges Peigné, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs néo-baroques français 1870-1914, published by CTHS Editions, Paris 2012, pp. 265-267.





Cyprian Godebski (Méry-sur-Cher 30 October 1835 - Paris 25 November 1909) - Polish sculptor; studied at the National Polish School in Batignolles, later studied in the studio of François Jouffroy. He made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1857. From 1858 to 1861 he stayed and worked in Lviv, then in Vienna, Paris and St. Petersburg, where he was appointed professor at the Academy. In 1875 he moved to Warsaw, from where he left after a year for Paris permanently. He was a member of the French National Academy and was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1889. He was the author, among others, of the Servais monument in Halle (1869), the monumental and decorative sculptures of the War Invalids Building in Lviv, the tombstone of Teofil Gautier, the Mickiewicz monument in Warsaw (1898), the Copernicus (1899) and Fredro (1900) monuments in Krakow, the Goluchowski monument in Lviv (1901) and many others. In 1882, at the Salon, he presented his silver-plated bronze Beggar's Cupid, and in 1888 the group Genius and Brute Force, made popular by bronze reductions.