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Lot no. 103
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Edouard-Gustave-Louis MILLET de MARCILLY (Paris, 1811 - Pau,1891)
The lion hunt
Bronze with brown patina
Signed 'Millet' on the terrace
The lion haunt, bronze, brown patina, by E.-G.-L. Millet de Marcilly
29.92 x 31.49 x 20.47 in.
76 x 80 x 52 cm
A pupil of Justin Lequien père (1796-1881), Edouard-Gustave-Louis Millet de Marcilly, often confused with the artist of the same name Aimé Millet, made his debut at the 1852 Salon with the plaster version of this bronze entitled "The Lion Hunt" (under no. 1488). Inspired by the Orientalist movement in vogue at the time, his group depicts an Arab rider saving another man from a lion attack.
It is likely that the artist was aware of works depicting the same theme executed in the 1830s by the painter Horace Vernet1 and the sculptor Antoine Louis Barye2. With its imposing size, our bronze remarkably expresses this heroism even before Eugène Delacroix completed his masterly composition of the Lion Hunt presented at the Universal Exhibition of 18553.
1. Horace Vernet, The Lion Hunt, 1836, oil on canvas, 57.1 x 81.7 cm, London, Wallace Collection, inv. P585
2. Antoine Louis Barye, Chasse au lion, bronze, signed "BARYE" on the terrace and dated 1837, dim.60 x 66,2 x 42 cm, Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, inv. 27.174 ;
Antoine Louis Barye, Cavalier arabe tuant un lion, circa 1860, bronze, H. 36,6 ; W. 36,5 ; D. 15,5 cm, on deposit with the Musée du Louvre, Roubaix, La Piscine- Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, inv. OA 5728
3. Eugène Delacroix, The Lion Hunt, 1854, sketch, oil on canvas, size 86 x 115 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, RF 1984 33
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Edouard-Gustave-Louis MILLET de MARCILLY (Paris, 1811 - Pau,1891)
76 x 80 x 52 cm
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