A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF NAKED LOVERS ENTITLED 'L'AGE D'OR', cast from a model by Pierre Emile Leysalle, standing, he with one arm around her waist, his left and her right arm raised together in the air and holding a foliate chain trailing around their bodies, on a circular naturalistic base signed Emile Leysalle and on a circular griotte marble plinth, late 19th/20th Century

A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF NAKED LOVERS ENTITLED 'L'AGE D'OR', cast from a model by Pierre Emile Leysalle, standing, he with one arm around her waist, his left and her right arm raised together in the air and holding a foliate chain trailing around their bodies, on a circular naturalistic base signed Emile Leysalle and on a circular griotte marble plinth, late 19th/20th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF NAKED LOVERS ENTITLED 'L'AGE D'OR', cast from a model by Pierre Emile Leysalle, standing, he with one arm around her waist, his left and her right arm raised together in the air and holding a foliate chain trailing around their bodies, on a circular naturalistic base signed Emile Leysalle and on a circular griotte marble plinth, late 19th/20th Century

the group: 21¾in. (55.3cm.) high
the plinth: 1¼in. (3.2cm.) high; 11½in. (29.2cm.) diameter

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Born in 1847, Leysalle studied under Mathurin Moreau and Carpeaux. He became professor of sculpture at the School of Industrial Arts, Geneva and exhibited at the Salon from 1873. He was chiefly known for allegorical and genre subjects, of which the present group is a good example.

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