304 - 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL, AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE CLESINGER (1814–1883)

19TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL, AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE CLESINGER (1814–1883) Roman Bullfight TERRACOTTA CAST Signed “J Clesinger – Rome 1863” Dimensions: 40 x 85 x 20 cm Broken horns, chips, and dust accumulation Provenance: Former collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family Biography l Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885). He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866. Expert in Sculpture & Collections