A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'CHANT DE L'ALOUETTE', cast from a model by Hippolyte Moreau, the young girl seated on a tree-stump and wearing peasant costume, her right hand to her face and holding a branch in her left, a birds nest and two chicks at her feet, on a circular naturalistic base signed H. Moreau and on a circular stepped plinth with the title plaque inscribed CHANT DE L'ALOUETTE PAR HTE MOREAU MEDAILLE AU SALON, the underside stamped with the number 25932, late 19th century