Charles Cordier (1827-1905 )Entwined Children, study for the monumental fireplace of Prince Paul DemidoffCirca 1865TerracottaSigned "C.Cordier" on the backH : 25 cmProvenance : The artist's family by descent. Related works: - Charles Cordier, Embracing Children, front faces and Embracing Children, profile faces, circa 1865, two plaster models, not located; - Charles Cordier, Children for a monumental fireplace for the hotel of Prince Paul Demidoff, December 1865, two groups in marble or marble-onyx, works destroyed . Related literature: Laure de Margerie, Édouard Papet, Charles Cordier, 1827-1905: the other and the elsewhere, cat. exp, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 2 February-2 May 2004, Quebec, Musée national des Beaux-arts, 10 June-6 September 2004, New York, Dahesh museum of Art, 12 October 2004-9 January 2005, Paris, Éditions de la Martinière, 2004, pp.164-165. In 1866, Demidoff commissioned the architect Max Vautier to build an extravagantly luxurious mansion, which has since been destroyed. He entrusted Cordier with the creation of a monumental fireplace.