A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'GLOIRE AU TRAVAIL', cast after the model by H. Levasseur, of a woman standing with right arm raised, holding a torch, with a palm branch in her other hand, the blacksmith seated on an anvil at her feet looking at each other on a rectangular naturalistic base, signed H. LEVASSEUR and impressed in a roundel SOCIETÉ DES BRONZES DE PARIS and numbered B/2491 and with title plaque at the front engraved GLOIRE AU TRAVAIL SALON DES BEAUX-ARTS, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'GLOIRE AU TRAVAIL', cast after the model by H. Levasseur, of a woman standing with right arm raised, holding a torch, with a palm branch in her other hand, the blacksmith seated on an anvil at her feet looking at each other on a rectangular naturalistic base, signed H. LEVASSEUR and impressed in a roundel SOCIETÉ DES BRONZES DE PARIS and numbered B/2491 and with title plaque at the front engraved GLOIRE AU TRAVAIL SALON DES BEAUX-ARTS, late 19th Century
35½in. (90cm.) high

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Born in 1853, Levasseur studied under Dumont, Thomas and Delaplanche. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and became a member of that society in 1885. He was the recipient of a number of awards, including a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900.

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