Lot 506
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A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF CUPID ENSNARED
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A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF CUPID ENSNARED

BY LOUIS SAMAIN (1834-1901), DATED 1872

Details
A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF CUPID ENSNARED
BY LOUIS SAMAIN (1834-1901), DATED 1872
Inscribed 'L.SAMAIN 1872'
inventory number '201'
29in. (73.6cm.) high
Provenance
Bought from Franklin, Hungerford.
Literature
F.Russell ed., The Loyd Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, revised edition 1991, p.66, no.201.
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Lot Essay

Samain, born in Nivelles, worked in Brussels, Antwerp and Paris, exhibiting portrait busts and genre statues at the Salons in these cities. He won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889, and was made Chevalier of the Order of Leopold.

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