A 19th century French bronze group of a fallen Amazonian warrior holding the reins of her attentive steed, the naturalistic base signed GECHTER, circa 1840 -- 15¼in. (38½cm.) wide.

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A 19th century French bronze group of a fallen Amazonian warrior holding the reins of her attentive steed, the naturalistic base signed GECHTER, circa 1840 -- 15¼in. (38½cm.) wide.

拍品专文

Jean Francois Theodore Gechter (1796-1844).

The present bronze is exemplary of the same basic model of a horse used in most of the sculptor's animal groups. The horse, shown with head lowered, was first exhibited at The Salon in 1838.