A French bronze group, entitled 'Charity'

CAST FROM A MODEL BY PAUL DUBOIS, CIRCA 1880

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A French bronze group, entitled 'Charity'
Cast from a model by Paul Dubois, Circa 1880
On shaped base inscribed P. DUBOIS and with Barbedienne foundry stamp, on griotte marble plinth
The bronze: 24.7/8in. (63cm.) high

拍品专文

Regarded in its day as one of the great works of modern sculpture, together with groups entitled Military Courage, Science and Faith, Dubois's group Charity, exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1878, formed part of the tomb of General Lamoricière at Nantes, and was subsequently edited in six sizes by Barbedienne.