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Lot 45
A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF TWO KING CHARLES CAVALIER SPANIELS ON A CUSHION
PROBABLY CAST AFTER A MODEL BY PROSPER LECOURTIER (1851-1924), CIRCA 1900
Closed16 December 2010
Price Realised
EUR 1,250
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Specialist note
The attribution is based on a bronze depicting a similar cushion with one King Charles cavalier spaniel signed Lecourtier. It is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, The Sladmore Gallery, An exhibition of Nineteenth Century Animalier Sculpture, 26th April - 26th May 2006, London, p. 64, cat. nr. 62.
Other casts of the same model -attributed to Antoine Louis Barye- are illustrated in C. Payne, Animals in Bronze, Woodbridge, 1986, p. 227, no. D73 and in S. Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 132, no. A31.
Other casts of the same model -attributed to Antoine Louis Barye- are illustrated in C. Payne, Animals in Bronze, Woodbridge, 1986, p. 227, no. D73 and in S. Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 132, no. A31.