Lot 225
225
Various Properties
A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL OF A PANTHER, cast from a model by Roger Godchaux,shown walking, its head turned and body curved to the left, signed Roger.Godchaux, inscribed Cire perdue and with Susse seal, early 20th Century

Details
A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL OF A PANTHER, cast from a model by Roger Godchaux,shown walking, its head turned and body curved to the left, signed Roger.Godchaux, inscribed Cire perdue and with Susse seal, early 20th Century
5½in. (14cm.) high
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
C. Payne, Animals in Bronze, Antique Collectors' Club, 1986, pp. 255, 260 & 406

Lot Essay

Roger Godchaux was born in 1878 and studied under Gérome and Adler. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes from 1905 and specialised in the production of impressionistically modelled animals, of which the present panther is a fine example.

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