Inscribed Susse Freres foundry, the artists name and titled Carthage. Warm brown patina over bronze, after the original lost was bronze by the artist. Offered without a base, measures apprx 13"T. Matho, the chief of the Barbarian soldiers, is depicted dying at the feet of Salammbo, the daughter of his Carthaginian enemy Hamilcar Barca, crying: 'I love you, I love you'. This scene is taken from Gustave Flaubert's novel, Salammbo, published in 1862. From the collection of Juliane and Philip Lynch, Shaker Heights, Ohio

Condition: without a base, embedded dust, very good.