{"id":13869,"date":"2026-03-19T12:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/produit\/mauvais-genie-1892\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:22:21","slug":"mauvais-genie-1892","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/produit\/mauvais-genie-1892\/","title":{"rendered":"EVIL GENIUS (1892)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S\u00e9goffin seems to have drawn inspiration for his <em>Evil Genius<\/em> from Romantic sculpture, particularly from Jean-Jacques Feuch\u00e8re (1807-1857) in his famous <em>Satan<\/em> (1834) or his <em>Evil Genius<\/em>, &#8220;a terracotta group for a console&#8221; (1853). These representations all reflect a taste for the damned, the vanquished and the desperate, a taste rooted in literature, including Milton&#8217;s <em>Paradise Lost<\/em>, Goethe&#8217;s <em>Faust<\/em>, and Dante&#8217;s <em>Inferno<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This <em>Evil Genius<\/em> also presents a superb study of the back (a muscular and knotted back) and a very expressive face which reinforce its fantastic aspect and which Michelangelo and Rodin would not have disowned.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #e1b300;\">Victor SEGOFFIN<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red patinated plaster, signed &#8220;A.J.V. S\u00e9goffin&#8221; and dated &#8220;1892&#8221; with the inscription &#8220;4 D&#8221;<br \/>\nH. 24\u201d (61,5 cm) &#8211; W. 11 \u00be\u201d (30 cm) &#8211; D. 14 \u00bc \u201d (36 cm)<br \/>\nCirca 1892<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exhibition: 1892, <em>Evil Genius<\/em>, plaster, Salon des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais, no. 3077.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13854,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[267,255,256,269,292],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13869","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-chefs-d-oeuvre-en-vente-en","7":"product_cat-dernieres-acquisitions-en","8":"product_cat-galerie-quai-voltaire-en","9":"product_cat-sculptures-xixeme-en","10":"product_cat-victor-segoffin-en","11":"description-off","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=13869"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=13869"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=13869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}