"helen" Bronze Statue By Clésinger

Imposing bronze statue with a medal and gold patina, known as Helen, hero of Greek mythology, daughter of Zeus and Leda, after the legend the most beautiful girl in the world after Aphrodite ... Signed Clésinger Rome 1864, Barbedienne cast iron and Collas mechanical reduction stamp, model produced in the late nineteenth century. Beautiful general presentation, some marks of antiquity, slight deformation at the base of the bronze (visible on the photos), complementary base restored in wood sheathed leather and laced on its base (7 cm high) to add to the indicated height Jean Baptiste (known as Auguste) Clésinger sculptor: Besançon 1814 / Paris 1883, began with Georges Philippe Clésinger (his father) who took him to Rome for the first time in 1832, exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1843, received public commissions including monument of Gustave Flaubert (Jardins du Luxembourg) appointed officer of the Legion of Honor in 1864, he is one of the great artists of the nineteenth century.