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A BRONZE FIGURE OF DAVID
Lot 535

A BRONZE FIGURE OF DAVID

CAST BY BARBEDIENNE FROM THE REDUCED MODEL NUMBER 3 BY ANTONIN MERCIE (FRENCH, 1795-1875), LATE 19TH CENTURY

Fermé16 December 2008

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF DAVID
CAST BY BARBEDIENNE FROM THE REDUCED MODEL NUMBER 3 BY ANTONIN MERCIE (FRENCH, 1795-1875), LATE 19TH CENTURY
The base signed A. Mercié and F.BARBEDIENNE, FONDEUR with the COLLAS reduction stamp
73 cm. high

Note du spécialiste

Mercié executed his composition of David with the head of Goliath in plaster at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1869-1870. In the Paris Salon of 1872 it won him a first class medal. Life-size bronze casts are in Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Musée Toulouse and at the University of Copenhagen. Barbedienne edited this model in six sizes of which the present lot is one.