Catalogue

A Bronze and marble composition “Young shepherd”. Author E. Lanceray. Russia, the end of the 19th century. Dimensions: 7.5 x 16 x 12 cm.

Starting price: 350€
Estimate: 400-600€

Émile Louis Picault (1833–1915)
St. George Slaying the Dragon
France, late 19th century
Bronze, signed “E. Picault”
Height: 78 cm

This monumental bronze by Émile Louis Picault depicts St. George, the Christian knight and dragon-slayer, standing triumphantly over the defeated beast. The sculpture captures the hero at rest after battle — his pose calm and resolute, his gaze lowered in quiet reflection. The finely rendered armor, detailed sword, and naturalistic anatomy reveal Picault’s exceptional skill in modeling bronze with both strength and grace.

A leading figure of 19th-century French sculpture, Picault was renowned for his allegorical and patriotic subjects as well as mythological heroes. Trained in Paris, he began exhibiting at the Salon des Beaux-Arts in 1863 and went on to produce more than 500 models during his prolific career. His works often explored virtues such as courage, honor, and diligence, rendered with expressive energy and precise craftsmanship.

Examples of his work can be found in major French museums, including:

Chambéry (Le Semeur d’idées, 45 cm)

Clermont-Ferrand (Hébé, 93 cm)

Maubeuge (Le Devoir, Honor Patria, 45 cm)

Troyes (La Famille, joies et peines)

Starting price: 5000€
Estimate: 6000-7000€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€

A Russian Icon – badge for those who graduated from the Petersburg School of the order of Saint Catherine (Ekaterininsky institute) – institute for Noble Maidens for daughters of gentry. Founded in 1798 by the ladies of the Order of Saint Catherine. In 1844 it was reckoned among the 1st category of women institutions. Eliminated after the October Revolution. Painting, porcelain, silver, engraving. Makers mark A.У. Petersburg, 1904-1908. Dimensions: 8 X 6 cm.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€

Russian cigarette-case “Bogatyrsakaya Zastava”. Silver, enamel, gilding. Workshop of M. Tarasov. Moscow, 1908-1917. Dimensions: 12.5 x 9 cm.

Starting price: 3000€
Estimate: 3000-4500€

A very rare Russian bronze composition ”Russian Knight – Vityaz”. Author Baron Peter Klodt. A rare version of the statuette, found in archival documents under the name “Russian Warrior in a Helmet and Chainmail”. In the mid-1840s, Klodt worked on groups for the Nevsky (Blagoveshchensky) Bridge in St. Petersburg. In the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) we found project sketches from 1846. Among them, the horse-mounted figures of warriors in ancient Russian attire stand out.
Similar drawings are also found in the collection of the Russian Museum in Saint-Petersburg. The statuettes “Russian Warrior in a Helmet and Chainmail” and “Slav with a Pike,” notable for their meticulous recreation of military weaponry from the 14th–17th centuries, were most likely created as models for the unrealized project of a bridge across the Neva. Petersburg, second part of the 19th century. Dimensions: 57 x 50 x 17.5 cm. See a similar example in the collection of the Russian State Historical Museum in Moscow: https://catalog.shm.ru/entity/OBJECT/2497912?exhibition=590507059&index=22 and Russian State Tretyakov galley in Moscow https://my.tretyakov.ru/app/masterpiece/51882

Starting price: 30000€
Estimate: 35000-45000€

A Russian bronze candlesticks “Ice Cream vendor” and “Fish seller”. Author E. Lanceray. Russia, the end of the 19th century. Height: 19.5 and 18.5 cm.

Starting price: 800€
Estimate: 1000-1500€

Cross for water blessing. Silver, gilding, niello, engraving. Maker’s mark P.A. Moscow, 1856. Size: 23 x 12 сm. Weight: 150.5 g.

Starting price: 1000€
Estimate: 1000-1500€

A Russian bronze “Lying boar”. Author N. Liberich. Petersburg, 1870s-1880s. Dimensions: 21 x 15 x 6 cm.

Starting price: 800€
Estimate: 1200-1800€

Evgeny Lanceray. Peasant Woman with Cattle and Dog
Model 1873
Bronze, casting, assembly, patination
27.5 × 26 × 23.5 cm
Petersburg, late 19th – early 20th century
Signature along the base: “E. Lanceray”, cast by C. Berto

This rare bronze group, created by Evgeny Lanceray in 1873, portrays a peasant woman guiding cattle, accompanied by a dog. It combines lively movement with careful attention to costume and detail, reflecting Lanceray’s interest in everyday Russian life and ethnographic themes.

Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848–1886)
Born in Morshansk, Tambov province, into a French family that had settled in Russia, Lanceray was the son of a railway engineer. He studied law at St. Petersburg University but received no formal artistic training, instead learning sculpture independently and working from life. He visited workshops of established sculptors, including Nikolai Liberich, and undertook study trips to Paris in 1867 and 1876, where he studied bronze casting and became acquainted with European art.

Lanceray traveled widely across Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, the Crimea, Bashkiria, and Kyrgyz lands, and in 1883 visited Algeria. His wax models, later cast in bronze, gained great popularity. Many of his works carried strong national, historical, or ethnographic character, and he also created pieces devoted to the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. In addition, he designed table services and desk sets.

In 1869 he was awarded the title of “Class Artist, 2nd degree” by the Imperial Academy of Arts, and in 1872 achieved the 1st degree. In 1874 he became an honorary free associate of the Academy, and from 1879 he was a member of the Moscow Society of Art Lovers.

A master of narrative plastic miniatures, Lanceray brought international recognition to Russian sculpture. His works were shown at the World’s Fairs in London (1872), Vienna (1873), Paris (1873), Antwerp (1885), and other cities. His bronzes were cast at all major Russian foundries and by private firms such as Chopin, Stange, Moran, and Berto, as well as at Ural ironworks. Today his works are preserved in the State Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, and other major collections. Karl Berto (Charles Auguste Bertault) Foundry. Studied under Barbedienne, Paris.

Period: 1889 – 1903.

In 1889 – 1890 the products were marked as Chopin & Berto.

Felix Chopin’s foundry has been passed over to Karl Berto in around 1890.

Starting price: 8000€
Estimate: 10000-12000€
Hammer Price: 12000€

Antique silver water jug on legs. Silver, 800 proof. Germany. Height: 31.5 cm. Weight: 1435 g.

Starting price: 800€
Estimate: 1000-1200€