10698 Barbedienne foundry

Life size patinated bronze bust of Lucius Verus, grandeur originale, with detailed hair and beard, looking to his left, on a square tapering plinth base, after the Roman marble in the Louvre (Borghese collection). The back engraved ‘F. Barbedienne. Fondeur’ with the cachet ‘A. Collas Breveté Réduction Mécanique’.

1865 – 1890

Height: 27.5 ins (70 cms)                              £7,500