Lot 123
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A French patinated-bronze group entitled 'L'amour vainqueur', on an ormolu-mounted oak pedestal
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A French patinated-bronze group entitled 'L'amour vainqueur', on an ormolu-mounted oak pedestal

CAST AFTER THE MODEL BY WILLIAM-ADOLPHE BOUGUEREAU, CIRCA 1890

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A French patinated-bronze group entitled 'L'amour vainqueur', on an ormolu-mounted oak pedestal
Cast after the model by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Circa 1890
Depicting Cupid flying, holding a bow in one hand, an arrow in the other, an angel flying to his side, above clouds, flanked to the side by two courting doves, inscribed W. Bouguerau Inv. A. Itasse Sculp 1887 to the front, the back with a foundry stamp and numbered 42159 12, on a shaped griotte marble base centred by a plaque inscribed L'AMOUR VAINQUEUR W. BOUGUEREAU INVT., on a stepped square pedestal, headed to each side by a medallion, centred to the front by a foliate clasp
The bronze group: 27 in. (68.5 cm.) high;
Overall: 75½ in. (192 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Born in La Rochelle in 1825, William-Adolphe Bouguereau (d.1905) settled in Paris in 1846. He was a pupil of Picot at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He was awarded in 1850 the Grand prix de Rome.
By the 1880s, Bouguereau's reputation as a leading figure of French Academic painting was internationally established and, with his assumption of the presidency of the Société des artistes français in 1881, he gained undisputable influence over the Paris Salon.

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