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PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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LETHU AND MAUGER MANUFACTORY (c.
See original version (French)
260
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LETHU AND MAUGER MANUFACTORY (c.
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
LETHU AND MAUGER MANUFACTORY (c. 1860–1893) – AFTER Louis-Simon BOIZOT (1743–1809)
Pluto Abducting Proserpina
WHITE BISCUIT GROUP
Inscribed on the plinth
Marked ‘LM’ on the underside
H. 44 cm
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
See original version (French)
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