Lot 331
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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'SOLDAT SPARTIATE'
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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'SOLDAT SPARTIATE'

AFTER JEAN-PIERRE CORTOT, CAST BY FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE, CIRCA 1880

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'SOLDAT SPARTIATE'
AFTER JEAN-PIERRE CORTOT, CAST BY FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE, CIRCA 1880
The dying soldier lying with arm outstretched, inscribed to the base F.BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR and SOLDATE SPARTIATE
38in. (96.5cm.) high; 44¼in. (112.3cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

This popular figure was also executed in bronze by the Barbedienne foundry in different sizes, the present example being one of the largest editions. Jean-Pierre Cortot created the orginial, now in the Louve, in marble and exhibited it at the 1834 Salon. Cortot (1787-1843) studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de Rome in 1809, he subsequently worked on several national commissions and specialised in patriotic public monuments.

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