Amour furieux (Angry putto)

The present work, L’amour furieux, is based on a model shown by Epinay at The Royal Academy, London in 1874 under the title `An implacable executioner’ (see P. Roux-Foujols, Prosper d’Épinay: un sculpteur mauricien à la cour des princes, 1996, p. 89). Another marble version is in the collection of the Mauritius Commercial Bank. The model was further edited in bronze by Ferdinand Barbedienne for the family’s collection, inscribed with the title Au diable (P. Roux-Foujols, op. cit., p. 89).