A PAIR OF FRENCH PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL GROUPS REPRESENTING BOREAS AND ORITHYIA (AIR) AND NEPTUNE AND CRONIS (WATER)

The present groups are modeled after the originals by Simon-Louis Boizot (d. 1809), which the artist executed in biscuit de Sèvres and exhibited in the Salon of 1786. They are variations of the same subjects treated by Marsy and Girardon which were the reductions of marble enlèvements planned by Le Brun and erected in the garden at Versailles in 1684-1687. Bronze examples dating to the 18th century are in the Wallace Collection, London.