A bronze equestrian group of a groom running a lively stallion, the alert animal with ears pricked, head to sinister, the oval naturalistic base signed CTE du Passage, late 19th century French -- 25½in. (64.8cm.) long.

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A bronze equestrian group of a groom running a lively stallion, the alert animal with ears pricked, head to sinister, the oval naturalistic base signed CTE du Passage, late 19th century French -- 25½in. (64.8cm.) long.

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Passage, Arthur Marie Gabriel, Compte du 1838-1909.

He studied under Barye and Mêne and exhibited at the Salon from 1865 onwards. Better known as a painter of animal subjects, he also sculpted a number of bronzes which bear the signature 'Ct. du Passage.

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