Lot 454
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A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL OF DIANA THE HUNTRESS

LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL OF DIANA THE HUNTRESS
LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
After the Antique, with 'REDUCTION MECANIQUE' stamp, on a later stained wood plinth
The bronze -- 16 in. (40.5 cm.) high
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. This lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse at the close of business on the day of sale - 2 weeks free storage

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Lot Essay

The present lot is after the antique marble of the virgin huntress now housed in the Louvre, Paris. The marble was first recorded in 1586 in Fontainbleau but was later moved under Louis XIV to the Grande Galerie at Versailles and finally to the Louvre in 1789. F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, no. 30.

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