"Allegory Of Fortune - By Louis-guillaume Fulconis"
Patinated bronze statuette, representing a woman holding a cornucopia, her foot resting on a wheel in the clouds. The cylindrical base decorated with a bas-relief represents loves sculpting and painting. The terrace is a circled base in sculpted black marble. Signed Fulconis in the center of the base, for Louis-Guillaume Fulconis, born in Avignon in 1818. He studied Fine Arts, entered a Masonic lodge, then exhibited at the Salon from 1857 to 1872. He made this Fortune at the same time as his resumption of Mercury after John of Bologne, around the 1860's. 
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