Lot 32
32
a french bronze figure entitled "faneur"

CAST FROM THE MODEL BY CHARLES LEVY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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a french bronze figure entitled "faneur"
Cast from the model by Charles Levy, late 19th Century
The young farmer resting on his fork, the separately-cast naturalistic base inscribed CH LEVY, and Faneur par CH LEVY Salon des Beaux-Arts, and with foundry mark bronze garanti au titre L.V. deposee and numbered 4-4226
42cm. high

Lot Essay

Charles Octave Levy (?-1899) exhibited his works at the Salon between 1873 and 1898. The bronze statue "Le Faneur", which was edited in several dimensions, was exhibited at the Salon in 1890. A version of 100cm. is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 440.

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