After JEAN LOUIS ERNEST MEISSONIER (French, 1815
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Description
General Duroc at the Battle of Castiglione, 1893
Bronze with brown patina
21-1/2 inches (54.6 cm) high
Inscribed on base with Soit-Decauville foundry seal: Duroc / Campagne d'Italie 1796 Castiglione / dernier maquette de mon mari Xbre 1890 / mort samedi 31 janvier 1891 / Paris / Ve EMeissonier / 1893
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CAROLYN AND STARKE TAYLOR, DALLAS
PROVENANCE:
Schweitzer Gallery, New York;
Private collection, Dallas, acquired from the above, February 1978.
LITERATURE:
V.Gréard, Meissonier: His Life and His Art, New York, 1897, ill. p. 361 (wax model);
C. Hungerford, Ernst Meissonier: Master in His Genre, Cambridge, England, 1999, ill. pp. 219-220, figs. 98 and 99;
H.W. Janson and P. Fusco, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections, Los Angeles, 1980, pp. 300-301;
Lami, vol. 7, p. 422-423.
Alternate Artist Spellings: "Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier", "Meissonier, Ernest", "Meissonier, Jean Louis", "Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest", "Meissonier, Jean-Louis Ernest", "Meissonnier, Jean Louis Ernest"
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