A FRENCH PARCEL-GILT BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'GLORIA VICTIS', cast from a model by Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié, the winged Victory wearing a gilt breastplate and balancing on one foot, carrying the nude wounded warrior with his broken sword, on a naturalistic base cast with a laurel branch and signed F.BARBEDIENNE, with the A. COLLAS BREVETE REDUCTION MECANIQUE stamp impressed in a roundel, the base inscribed with the number 518, on a red-covered velvet square tapering plinth

A FRENCH PARCEL-GILT BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'GLORIA VICTIS', cast from a model by Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié, the winged Victory wearing a gilt breastplate and balancing on one foot, carrying the nude wounded warrior with his broken sword, on a naturalistic base cast with a laurel branch and signed F.BARBEDIENNE, with the A. COLLAS BREVETE REDUCTION MECANIQUE stamp impressed in a roundel, the base inscribed with the number 518, on a red-covered velvet square tapering plinth

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A FRENCH PARCEL-GILT BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'GLORIA VICTIS', cast from a model by Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié, the winged Victory wearing a gilt breastplate and balancing on one foot, carrying the nude wounded warrior with his broken sword, on a naturalistic base cast with a laurel branch and signed F.BARBEDIENNE, with the A. COLLAS BREVETE REDUCTION MECANIQUE stamp impressed in a roundel, the base inscribed with the number 518, on a red-covered velvet square tapering plinth
the bronze: 24¼in. (61cm.) high
the plinth: 8in. (20.2cm.) square; 3¾in. (9.5cm.) high
28in. (71.3cm.) high overall

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