A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF MEPHISTOPHELES, cast from the model by Emile Hébert, seated on a Gothic pedestal and wearing medieval costume, on a shaped base signed E. HEBERT SCP and with the foundry inscription E. VITTOZ Bronzier PARISthird quarter 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF MEPHISTOPHELES, cast from the model by Emile Hébert, seated on a Gothic pedestal and wearing medieval costume, on a shaped base signed E. HEBERT SCP and with the foundry inscription E. VITTOZ Bronzier PARISthird quarter 19th Century
12½in. (31.7cm.) wide; 39in. (99cm.) high; 12½in. (39.5cm.) deep

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Emile Hébert (d.1893) studied sculpture under his father, Pierre, and exhibited at the Salon between 1846 and 1893. Mephistopheles was executed and exhibited in 1853 and as an early work in the sculptors oeuvre differs in style and subject-matter from much of his later pieces.

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