Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié
( 1845 - 1916 )
GLORIA VICTIS
Salon in 1874 (plaster), in 1875 (bronze)
World fair (1878) and century French Art Fair (1900)
Bronze of the reduction N°1 (3/5 from the originall),
richly shaded brown patina with golden highlights.
H : 187 cm, L : 112 cm, D : 91 cm
Signed "A.Mercié" with the "F. Barbedienne Fondeur" mark, presented with the assembly parts, probably the example quoted in the catalogue raisonné of Barbedienne by Florence Rionnet : "le janvier 1912, le sculpteur autorise l'éditeur à monter en épreuve et à mettre en vente le modèle n°1".
One second example at the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse.
Circa 1880-1912
World fair (1878) and century French Art Fair (1900)
Bronze of the reduction N°1 (3/5 from the originall),
richly shaded brown patina with golden highlights.
H : 187 cm, L : 112 cm, D : 91 cm
Signed "A.Mercié" with the "F. Barbedienne Fondeur" mark, presented with the assembly parts, probably the example quoted in the catalogue raisonné of Barbedienne by Florence Rionnet : "le janvier 1912, le sculpteur autorise l'éditeur à monter en épreuve et à mettre en vente le modèle n°1".
One second example at the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse.
Circa 1880-1912
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