拍品 176
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A LARGE FRENCH BRONZE RELIEF OF 'LA PENSÉE', cast from a model by Henri Chapu, the literary muse shown seated, her right arm raised and holding aloft her cloak, a scroll in her left hand, books and a quill by her feet, signed H. CHAPU and inscribed Thiebaut Frères, Fumière et Gavignot Frs, second half 19th Century

细节
A LARGE FRENCH BRONZE RELIEF OF 'LA PENSÉE', cast from a model by Henri Chapu, the literary muse shown seated, her right arm raised and holding aloft her cloak, a scroll in her left hand, books and a quill by her feet, signed H. CHAPU and inscribed Thiebaut Frères, Fumière et Gavignot Frs, second half 19th Century
34in. (86.3cm.) high

拍品专文

The present relief is a fine bronze reduction of the large marble decorating the monument to Comtesse d'Agoult, the author Daniel Stern, in Paris. The plaster and marble versions were exhibited at the Salons of 1876 and 1877 respectively; a plaster model is in the Musée du Mée.