Nineteenth Statue Emile Picault Allegory... Ode To The Virtues...

oh Before I forget: the shipping costs (Europe) are included in the offer...gift...Emile Picault, prolific sculptor of the 2nd part of the 19th century was in step with the times. Industrialization was in full swing and with it, its share of social needs. This sculptor could have been a poet, as his works imply an in-depth reading, in the context of the time. Imagine this muscular ephebe, crunched in the antique style, dressed in a loincloth fastened by a single leather belt... He is camped against a pedestal decorated with a lion and engraved with a maxim: Work - Economy, completed by a branch of pedunculate oak, by way of glorification...Our hero is holding a book, as if it were Moses with his tablets of the law...marked: Help yourself to each other...From the n the other hand, he holds a purse which one suspects is lined with coins. The whole fable is titled Mutuality. When I told you that you had to read the sculpture .... Magnificent original bevelled "sea green" marble base. Magnificent bronze patina Signature E.Picault FRANCE