CAST FROM A MODEL BY EMILE HÉBERT, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
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A French bronze allegorical group of 'Love', on ormolu-mounted marble plinth
Cast from a model by Emile Hébert, Last quarter 19th Century
Depicting two young scantily-clad maidens with flower chains, standing on a chariot intersected by Love's arrow and with a pair of courting doves, on a naturalistic cloud base, signed Emile Hébert, on an oval ormolu-mounted black marble base, the sides inset with foliate-cast guilloche panels between foliate rosettes, on rectangular fluted feet
The bronze: 29¼in. (79.2cm.) high
The plinth: 4½in. (11.5cm.) high
Cast from a model by Emile Hébert, Last quarter 19th Century
Depicting two young scantily-clad maidens with flower chains, standing on a chariot intersected by Love's arrow and with a pair of courting doves, on a naturalistic cloud base, signed Emile Hébert, on an oval ormolu-mounted black marble base, the sides inset with foliate-cast guilloche panels between foliate rosettes, on rectangular fluted feet
The bronze: 29¼in. (79.2cm.) high
The plinth: 4½in. (11.5cm.) high