Gilt Bronze Group - Sarpédon - Signed: Henri Peinte - Period: XIXth

Superb gilded bronze group resting on a very pretty morello cherry marble, representing Sarpedon, Lycian hero who took part in the Trojan War against the Achaeans, bending his bow with a quiver and arrows at his feet.

Period: XIXth
Circa: 1878
Dimensions: Height: 32cm x Width: 13cm x Depth: 11cm
Signed on the base "H. Peinte"

Sculptor of mythological subjects, Henri Peinte (1845-1912) was a pupil of Duret and Cavelier.

He exhibited for the first time at the Salon of 1877 and won a third class medal and the Prix du Salon, with a statue of Sarpedon.

It is the most famous work of Henri Peinte, noticed that same year by art critics Charles Tardieu, Henri Houssaye and Paul Mantz and produced for a public garden in Cambrai where it will be installed in 1878.

A Sarpédon's reduction in bronze earned him a Grand Prize at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, the year in which he was awarded the Legion of Honor.

Our sculpture is one of the reductions made the same year as that of the public garden in Cambrai and exhibited in 1889 in Paris.

The original plaster model is currently kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Coulommiers. Several bronze editions are in the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen.