Gaul bust
Studio plaster cast designed for the group "Le Départ des volontaires" on the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile in Paris, sculpted in 1833-36.
Handwritten inscriptions:
On the front cartel: "Le Départ des Volontaires bas-relief de l'Arc de Triomphe",
On the back, "Le Départ des Volontaires Arc de Tromphe, PARIS, Don de François RUDE".
On the back, on a label: "Tête de Gaulois - Départ des volontaires - Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile - Don de François Rude au Dr Blanc, transmis à Melle Gagnère Berthe sage-femme à Saulon le Chapelle qui en a fait don à Suzanne avant de mourir à la fin de la guerre 39-45".
Height. 60 cm.
Wear, cracks.
PROVENANCE.
Collection of Docteur Blanc in Dijon (having received it from François Rude himself).
Similar copy in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
François et Sophie Rude, un couple d'artistes.
Exhibition catalog, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2012-2013, cat. 96, p. 352
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