A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF DANTE, cast from a model by Jean-Paul Aubé, looking downwards, wearing a headdress with a laurel wreath and wrapping his long coat around him with both hands, trampling on a man lying under his right foot, on a naturalistic base, signed P. Aubé, impressed in a roundel FUMIERE THIEBAUT FRES PARIS ET CIE SUCRS, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF DANTE, cast from a model by Jean-Paul Aubé, looking downwards, wearing a headdress with a laurel wreath and wrapping his long coat around him with both hands, trampling on a man lying under his right foot, on a naturalistic base, signed P. Aubé, impressed in a roundel FUMIERE THIEBAUT F<->RES<-> PARIS ET C<->IE<-> SUC<->RS, late 19th Century

24¼in. (61cm.) high

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Jean-Paul Aubé (d.1920) was a pupil of Duret at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts before leaving to study decorative sculpture in Italy. Exhibiting at the Salon from 1861, he was also to win various medals at the Expositions Universelles during the last quarter of the 19th century, becoming an Officer of the Legion D'Honneur

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