584 - LOUIS PASTEUR by Auguste PATEY.
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Estimate €500

Description

LOUIS PASTEUR by Auguste PATEY. Large bronze casting (100 mm), undated, depicting a three-quarter profile bust of Louis Pasteur. Reverse: Hercules slaying the seven-headed Hydra as it crushes a young woman to the ground. A highly original piece from 1889, both for the portrait on the obverse and the symbolic power of the reverse. F. Mazerolle, *Auguste Patey: Biography and Catalogue of his Work*, p. 223, no. 14 (in *Gazette Numismatique française*, 1898, 3rd instalment). Condition: Rare and superb

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Auction time 10/16/2026 at 1:00 PM

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584 - LOUIS PASTEUR by Auguste PATEY. See original version (French)

584 - LOUIS PASTEUR by Auguste PATEY.
See original version (French)