拍品 25
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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF PHILOPOEMEN, cast from a model by David d'Angers, the general shown standing, his head crowned with a plumed helmet, his dagger in his left hand, his right extracting an arrow from his thigh, his shield and cloak resting against a tree trunk, signed and dated DAVID D'ANGERS 1837, 19th Century

细节
A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF PHILOPOEMEN, cast from a model by David d'Angers, the general shown standing, his head crowned with a plumed helmet, his dagger in his left hand, his right extracting an arrow from his thigh, his shield and cloak resting against a tree trunk, signed and dated DAVID D'ANGERS 1837, 19th Century
26in. (66cm.) high
出版
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, The Romantics to Rodin, 1980, pp. 222-3, no. 101
Angers, Musées d'Angers, Galerie David d'Angers, 1985, p. 63

拍品专文

The statue was commissioned by the government of Louis-Philippe in 1832, the marble completed in 1837 was installed in the Jardin des Tuileries as part of a program of didactic statues. In 1859 it became part of the Louvre Collection as an important work "de Chef d'école et objet d'étude pour les artistes". David D'Angers has captured the Greek General towards the end of the Battle of Sellasia (222B.C.), illustrating an episode from Plutarch's Lives.