A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF CUPID ENTITLED 'AMOUR IRRESISTIBLE', cast from a model by Marie Cassavetti-Zambacco, standing, his right foot resting on his broken bow held by his right hand, on a circular naturalistic base cast with a tree-stump and, signed Marie Cassavetti and with the title plaque to the front inscribed AMOUR IRRESISTIBLE Par Marie Cassavetti (Salon des Beaux Arts), on a verde antico circular stepped plinth (the plinth with damages), late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF CUPID ENTITLED 'AMOUR IRRESISTIBLE', cast from a model by Marie Cassavetti-Zambacco, standing, his right foot resting on his broken bow held by his right hand, on a circular naturalistic base cast with a tree-stump and, signed Marie Cassavetti and with the title plaque to the front inscribed AMOUR IRRESISTIBLE Par Marie Cassavetti (Salon des Beaux Arts), on a verde antico circular stepped plinth (the plinth with damages), late 19th Century

the figure: 23½in. (59.7cm.) high
the plinth: 2in. (5cm.) high; 7½in. (19cm.) diameter at base

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Greek by birth, Marie Cassavetti-Zambacco studied in London under Burne-Jones and later in Paris became a pupil of Alphonse Legros and Auguste Rodin. She exhibited both at the Royal Academy and at the Paris Salon and won bronze medals at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 and 1900.

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