Large Patinated Bronze Bust of Lucius Verus from Barbedienne Foundry
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
