Lot 124
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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF JOAN OF ARC, cast from a model by Edouard Drouot, shown standing, wearing a long robe with bodice laced with ribbons, her long hair falling down her back, on naturalistic base with flax spindle, her left hand held to her bosom, and her head raised to the left, signed E. Drouot, on revolving rouge marble socle, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF JOAN OF ARC, cast from a model by Edouard Drouot, shown standing, wearing a long robe with bodice laced with ribbons, her long hair falling down her back, on naturalistic base with flax spindle, her left hand held to her bosom, and her head raised to the left, signed E. Drouot, on revolving rouge marble socle, late 19th Century
30¼in. (77cm.) high

Lot Essay

Edouard Drouot was born in Paris in 1859 and studied there under Thomas and Mathurin Moreau. He is better known as a genre painter and won a third class medal at the Salon of 1892 and an honourable mention at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 for such work. He is known for equestrian bronzes, as well as genre statuettes of semi-nude women, dancing or playing musical instruments.

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