DANCER WITH SNAKE OR CLEOPATRA. BRONZE, MARBLE. DEVENET,

Dancer with snake or Cleopatra. Bronze, marble. DEVENET, Claude-Marie (1851-Paris, 1931), around 1925. With brand. Bronze figure on a pyramidal pedestal of veined stone that shows a young woman in exotic clothing, squatting, with a snake in her hands. Stylistically, it presents details that allow it to be considered within the Art Deco style and, as for the theme, there are known pieces in which she appears as a dancer and others that link the scene with the death of Cleopatra at the hands of the asp. A disciple of Auguste Dumond at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, Claude-Marie Devenet obtained a Third Class Medal at the Salon of 1882, and a Bronze at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. Weight: 3.4 kg.

· Size: 10x8x32 cms.