A SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURE OF 'VAUBAN' FROM THE SERIES OF 'LES GRANDS HOMMES'

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A SÈVRES BISCUIT FIGURE OF 'VAUBAN' FROM THE SERIES OF 'LES GRANDS HOMMES'
Circa 1785

Standing wearing full wig, breastplate, long coat with sash, sword, breeches and short boots, a scroll in his right hand, his left hand unrolling a plan of a military fortification revealing a model of the same resting on a canon, on a square base (tip of scroll and index finger to right hand lacking, chipping to extremities of costume), incised LR and 13 to the base at front
19 1/2in. (49.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

First modelled by Bridan in 1783

Cf. Bourgeois, op. cit., fig. 605

Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707) was Maréchal de France and military engineer to Louis XIV. As such he was responsible for the design of the fortifications of important northern French towns in the wars against the Dutch and other campaigns

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