A FRENCH GREEN-PATINATED BRONZE GROUP OF LOVERS, cast from a model by Alphonse Moncel, the girl seated on a bench, her companion reclining behind her, his arm around her shoulder, on a naturalistic square base with canted angles, signed ALPHONSE MONCEL and with the founders inscription F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur and with the REDUCTION MECANIQUE stamp to the reverse, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH GREEN-PATINATED BRONZE GROUP OF LOVERS, cast from a model by Alphonse Moncel, the girl seated on a bench, her companion reclining behind her, his arm around her shoulder, on a naturalistic square base with canted angles, signed ALPHONSE MONCEL and with the founders inscription F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur and with the REDUCTION MECANIQUE stamp to the reverse, late 19th Century

24½in. (62.2cm.) wide overall; 25¾in. (65.4cm.) high; 16in. (40.6cm.) deep overall

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Comte Alphonse Emmanuel de Moncel de Perrin (1866-1930), Born in Paris he studied under Thomas and Mercié and began exhibiting at the salon des Artistes Francais in 1888. He specialized in classical high-reliefs, genre figures and portrait busts and received an honourable mention in 1889, a travelling scholarship in 1895 and was awarded the Legion D'Honneur in 1903.

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