A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A YOUTH, ENTITLED 'LE DEVOIR', cast from a model by Adrien Gaudez, shown standing, wearing a belted skin loin cloth, his head turned to the right, his left hand resting on a plough, his right hand holding a sword, sheaves of wheat at his feet, signed A. GAUDEZ, on a turned bronze socle with cartouche inscribed LE DEVOIR PAR A. GAUDEZ HORS CONCOURS, late 19th Century 30¼in. (77cm.) high

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A YOUTH, ENTITLED 'LE DEVOIR', cast from a model by Adrien Gaudez, shown standing, wearing a belted skin loin cloth, his head turned to the right, his left hand resting on a plough, his right hand holding a sword, sheaves of wheat at his feet, signed A. GAUDEZ, on a turned bronze socle with cartouche inscribed LE DEVOIR PAR A. GAUDEZ HORS CONCOURS, late 19th Century 30¼in. (77cm.) high

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Adrien Etienne Gaudez (1845-1902) was born in Lyons and died at Neuilly. He studied under Jouffroy and began exhibiting at the Salon in 1864, winning a third class medal that year and a first class medal in 1881. He specialised in monuments and large groups of statuary, but also sculpted portrait reliefs and busts.

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