A French bronze figure of a youthful warrior, entitled 'Even the Conquerors must Mourn their Victories'

CAST FROM A MODEL BY FRANÇOIS RAOUL LARCHE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A French bronze figure of a youthful warrior, entitled 'Even the Conquerors must Mourn their Victories'
Cast from a model by François Raoul Larche, Late 19th Century
The naked youth with hands clasped and resting on his thigh, his sword resting on a drapery-covered pedestal beside him, the side with Greek inscription, on a naturalistic base signed RAOUL LARCHE and inscribed SIOT FONDEUR
53½in. (135.9cm.) high
Provenance
Alphonse Bertrand, Paris
Willitts J Hole, Los Angeles

Lot Essay

Having studied under Jouffroy, Falguière and Delaplanche at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, Raoul Larche (d.1912) began his career as an allegorical sculptor but soon became a Symbolist and, in his later years, a protagonist of the Art Nouveau movement. A strong Symbolist work, produced early on in his career and representing the ideal of the victor in life honouring the loser, Even the Conquerors must mourn their Victories shows a youthful warrior standing and contemplating his vanquished enemies.

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