Lot 179: COMPAGNE DE DIANE FRANCE, XIXE SIÈCLE, D'APRÈS RENÉ FRÉMIN (1672-1744) |

en terre cuite; sur une plinthe en bois peint et patiné à l'imitation du marbre ; (accidents et manques)

Haut. 182 cm; height 71 2/3 in.

Diana's small finger of her proper right hand missing, as well as the tip of her arch and index of her proper right hand. Patina retouched at several places, as can seen on the photograph. The dog's left forearm and his right hind leg with restoration.
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F. Souchal, French Sculptor of the 17th and 18th centuries, Oxford, 1977, p. 309, n° 31; J.R. Gaborit, Sculpture française. II Renaissance et Temps Modernes, cat. musée du Louvre, Paris, 1998, t. I, p. 385.