A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'LA GLOIRE', cast from a model by Charles Vital Cornu, the winged Victory standing, holding a torch in his raised left arm and a laurel wreath in his right hand, a fallen warrior lying at his feet, on an oval naturalistic rocky base signed Vital Cornu and with the foundry stamp SOCIETE DES BRONZES DE PARIS impressed in a roundel and the numbers and letter 4924/B, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'LA GLOIRE', cast from a model by Charles Vital Cornu, the winged Victory standing, holding a torch in his raised left arm and a laurel wreath in his right hand, a fallen warrior lying at his feet, on an oval naturalistic rocky base signed Vital Cornu and with the foundry stamp SOCIETE DES BRONZES DE PARIS impressed in a roundel and the numbers and letter 4924/B, late 19th Century
14in. (35.5cm.) wide; 38¾in. (98.5cm.) high; 8½in. (21.5cm.) deep

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Vital Cornu studied under Delaplanche and Jouffroy and exhibited at the Salon during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, winning various medals. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1896.

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