Lot 230
  • 230

Paul Dubois

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Dubois
  • La Charité
  • signed P. DUBOIS to the reverse and stamped F. BARBEDIENNE, Fondeur, Paris to the base.
  • bronze, dark brown patina
  • height 25 1/4 in.
  • 64 cm

Condition

Overall good condition; light rubbing and wear to the surface.
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Catalogue Note

Charité was one of four bronze allegorical seated figures executed by Dubois for the corners of the Monument to the Memory of General Juchault de Lamoricière (1806-65). The plaster model was exhibited at the Salon of 1876 alongside Courage Militaire and the completed monument was displayed at the Exposition Universelle in 1878, prior to its installation in the transept of Nantes Cathedral the following year. This sculpture personifies Charity as a mother protecting her naked children was easily recognizable to the 19th century viewer. Renaissance and contemporary interpretations of the subject were both displayed in European museums, and circulated in popular engravings.