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Lot 223
Description:
A French Bronze of "La Jeunesse", after Henri-Michel Antoine Chapu (French, 1833-1891), c. 1880, the classically draped figure stretching to place a laurel branch atop the column, signed "h. Chapu" and inscribed "F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR", with a bronze plaque reading "A Mr. ERNEST NICOLLE PRÉSIDENT DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE DE LILLE/ 1900-1908/ LES MEMBRES DU COMITÉ D'ÉTUDES", on a pedestal decorated with gilt bronze floral swags, bronze height 37 1/2 in., width 14 1/2 in., depth 12 1/4 in., overall height 72 in.
- Notes: Exhibition: Paris Salon of 1875. Note: The marble version of this lot was displayed in the Paris Salon of 1875, catalogue #2940, and remains on view in the patio of the Beaux-Arts school in Paris. Reference: Berman, Harold. Bronzes, Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930, vol. IV. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1974, p 1124, pl 4495.
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