A PAIR OF FRENCH TERRACOTTA STANDING FIGURES

BY LOUIS AND ETIENNE GOSSIN (1846-1928 AND D. 1900), LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH TERRACOTTA STANDING FIGURES
BY LOUIS AND ETIENNE GOSSIN (1846-1928 AND D. 1900), LATE 19TH CENTURY
She wearing at wide-brimmed bonnet and signed 'Gossin L Paris'; he with bagpipes, both on a rockwork base and on pine square corner pedestals, restorations
She: 41 in. (104 cm.) high; He: 40 in. (102 cm.) high
The pedestals: 22 ½ in. (57 cm.) high, 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) square

Provenance

The pedestals supplied by T. Crowther and Son, November 1978.

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Lot Essay

Louis and Etienne Gossin were brothers working in Paris at the end of the 19th Century. Mainly genre sculptors, their works were exhibited at the Salon from 1877 onwards. They won bronze medals at the Expositions of 1889 and 1900.

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