A BRONZE FIGURE OF PHILOPOEMEN

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AFTER THE MODEL BY DAVID D’ANGERS (1788-1856), AFTER 1837
A BRONZE FIGURE OF PHILOPOEMEN
Depicted leaning against a draped tree trunk, wearing a helmet and wielding a sword, signed David D'Angers to top of base; together with another bronze figure of a warrior leaning against a draped column with arms crossed holding a sword, signed E. Quesnel. to reverse of plinth and incised Foyatier / 1832 to base of column
13 1⁄2 in. (34.5 cm.) high, 5 3⁄8 in. (13.5 cm.) wide, 5 5⁄8 in. (14.5 cm.) deep
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Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
E. Bowyer, David D'Angers: making the modern monument, New York, 2013, no. 39, p. 100.
J. De Caso, David D'Angers: l'avenir de la mémoire : étude sur l'art signalétique à l'époque romantique, Paris, 1988. pp. 10-11.
Galerie David d'Angers, Angers, 1984, pp. 20, 24, 63, 119.

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Lot Essay

The original statue was commissioned by the government of Louis-Philippe in 1832 and the marble, completed in 1837, was installed in the Jardin des Tuileries as part of a program of didactic statues. In 1859, it became part of the Louvre Collection. David d'Angers has captured the Greek General towards the end of the Battle of Sellasia (222B.C.), illustrating an episode from Plutarch's Lives. A bronze model of Philopoemen by David d’Angers, from the Schlossberg Collection, was exhibited as cat. no. 39 at the Frick in 2013.

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