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Désespérée and La Vérité méconnue
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AIME-JULES DALOU (FRENCH, 1838-1902)
Désespérée and La Vérité méconnue
Désespérée signed 'DALOU' and stamped within a rectangular frame 'SUSSE FRES/ PARIS/ CIRE PERDUE'; La Vérité méconnue signed 'DALOU Ser', inscribed 'Susse Fres Edt/ Paris/ cire perdue', and with a sticker to the underside marked 'C. ROBERSON & CO. Ltd./ Manufacturing Artis's Colo.../ etc./ 99 Long Are & 155-6 Pi.../ LONDON'; each with Susse Frères cachet
bronze, mid-brown patina
Désespérée: 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
La Vérité méconnue: 5 ¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high
(2)These bronzes circa 1910.
Désespérée and La Vérité méconnue
Désespérée signed 'DALOU' and stamped within a rectangular frame 'SUSSE FRES/ PARIS/ CIRE PERDUE'; La Vérité méconnue signed 'DALOU Ser', inscribed 'Susse Fres Edt/ Paris/ cire perdue', and with a sticker to the underside marked 'C. ROBERSON & CO. Ltd./ Manufacturing Artis's Colo.../ etc./ 99 Long Are & 155-6 Pi.../ LONDON'; each with Susse Frères cachet
bronze, mid-brown patina
Désespérée: 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
La Vérité méconnue: 5 ¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high
(2)These bronzes circa 1910.
Provenance
With C. Roberson & Co. Ltd., London. (La Verité Mèconnue, according to paper label).
Special notice
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