19th Century Bronze, 88 Cm, Paul Eugène Breton 1868/1932, Salambo

Period: 19th century, bronze in very good condition, lost wax, and on bronze base
Signed: Breton PJ
Subject: Salambo
Dimensions: height: 88 cm, length: 30 cm, depth: 25 cm. – 14.5 Kg.

Biography:
Paul Eugène BRETON 1868 / 1932
Paul-Eugène Breton, born in Toulouse on May 21, 1868 and died in Paris on January 4, 1932, is a French sculptor. A student of Alexandre Falguière, he exhibited at the Salon of French Artists from 1886 and obtained a 2nd class medal in 1889, a medal of honor in 1896, and a 3rd class medal in 1898. 1898,2nd cl. 1889 and in 1900 a bronze medal. We owe him various statuettes. The preliminary studies of his marble statue Salammbô were rewarded with a medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. Source Bénézit and Pierre Kjellberg, Dictionary of sculptors: bronzes of the 19th century, Éditions de l'Amateur, 1997.

Subject:
SALAMBO:
Salambo is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1862 by Michel Lévy. Its subject is the Mercenary War, 3rd century BC. AD , which pitted the city of Carthage against the barbarian mercenaries it had employed during the first Punic War, and who revolted, furious at not having received the agreed pay. Her character, the fictional eponymous heroine, is the daughter of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, and the sister of the famous Hannibal. Flaubert sought to respect known history, but took advantage of the little information available to describe an Orient with sensual and violent exoticism. When the goddess Aphrodite mourned the death of Adonis, the Babylonians called her Salambo.

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