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A Bronze Group of a Georgian on Horseback
Lot 275

A Bronze Group of a Georgian on Horseback

CAST BY CHOPIN AFTER A MODEL BY EVGENII LANCERAY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed13 April 2011

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A Bronze Group of a Georgian on Horseback
Cast by Chopin after a model by Evgenii Lanceray, late 19th century
On a rectangular naturalistic base with canted corners, cast as a man in a sheepskin hat riding a horse, signed on base in Cyrillic 'E. LANCERAY' with the Cyrillic foundry mark 'F. CHOPIN' and a finance ministry stamp for 1870
10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a discussion of this model, see G. Sudbury, et al., Evgueni Alexandrovich Lanceray: le sculpteur russe du cheval, Paris, 2006, p. 100, illustrated (as 'Géorgien caracolant').