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CAST BY BARBEDIENNE (REDUCTION NO 2) AFTER A MODEL BY PAUL DUBOIS (FRENCH, 1827-1905), LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Chanteur Florentin du XVe siècle

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CAST BY BARBEDIENNE (REDUCTION NO 2) AFTER A MODEL BY PAUL DUBOIS (FRENCH, 1827-1905), LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Chanteur Florentin du XVe siècle
The separately cast circular base inscribed P. DVBOIS 1865 F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR and stamped REDUCTION MECANIQUE A. COLLAS
brown patinated bronze
93 cm. high

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Lot Essay

The plaster model which was presented at the Salon in 1865, is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Troyes.
A silvered bronze example of 155 cm. high, also cast by Barbedienne, was exhibited during the World Exhibition of 1867 and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

A smaller reduction is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 297.

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