A FRENCH PARCEL-GILT BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'GLORIA VICTIS', cast from the 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 A.MERCIE and with the founders inscription F.BARBEDIENNE, Fondeur, Paris and REDUCTION MECANIQUE A.COLLAS BREVETE stamped in a roundel, the underside of the base impressed 776 and inscribed in ink 28787, on a rectangular red-velvet covered stepped plinth, late 19th Century