CAST AFTER A MODEL BY P. DUBOIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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A bronze figure of a classical warrior
Cast after a model by P. Dubois, late 19th/early 20th Century
Seated on a tree trunk, signed on the back P. Dubois and inscribed on the base F. Barbedienne fondeur and stamped with reduction mechanique A. Collas
50cm. high
Cast after a model by P. Dubois, late 19th/early 20th Century
Seated on a tree trunk, signed on the back P. Dubois and inscribed on the base F. Barbedienne fondeur and stamped with reduction mechanique A. Collas
50cm. high
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Additional information: Paul Dubois (1827-1905) studied sculpture under Armand Toussaint, and made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1857. He reawakened the interest in Florentine Renaissance sculpture. His most celebrated work in this neo-florentin style is his contribution to the Memorial to General de Lamoriciere in Nantes Cathedral (1876). One of the life-size sculptures is La Courage Militaire. The Barbedienne Foundry edited this model in different sizes. The present cast was made Circa 1900.(H.W. Janson, Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, London 1985, p.186)