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A bronze figure 'La Toilette de Diane'

Antonin (Marius-Jean-Antonin) Mercié Toulouse 1845 - Paris 1916


A bronze figure 'La Toilette de Diane'

Lot-No. 1177

Proceeds : 3.500 €


Paris, around 1900. Bronze with brown patina, H. 49 cm, sign. 'a. mercié' and with foundary mark 'Thiebaut Frères Founders Paris'. - French sculptor and painter, studied under Alexandre Falguière and François Jouffroy at the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts, 1868 he gained the Grand Prix de Rome at the age of 23. His first popular successes were the sculptore of David (1872) and the war memorial Gloria Victis (1874). - Mus.: Paris (Musée d'Orsay, Louvre), Toulouse, London, Washigton u.a. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.

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Antonin (Marius-Jean-Antonin) Mercié: A bronze figure 'La Toilette de Diane'


Antonin (Marius-Jean-Antonin) Mercié Toulouse 1845 - Paris 1916

A bronze figure 'La Toilette de Diane'

Lot-No. 1177

Proceeds : 3.500 €

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Paris, around 1900. Bronze with brown patina, H. 49 cm, sign. 'a. mercié' and with foundary mark 'Thiebaut Frères Founders Paris'. - French sculptor and painter, studied under Alexandre Falguière and François Jouffroy at the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts, 1868 he gained the Grand Prix de Rome at the age of 23. His first popular successes were the sculptore of David (1872) and the war memorial Gloria Victis (1874). - Mus.: Paris (Musée d'Orsay, Louvre), Toulouse, London, Washigton u.a. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.

A bronze figure 'La Toilette de Diane'
A bronze figure 'La Toilette de Diane'