Sculpture - Sarpedon Bending His Arc , Henri Peinte (1845-1912) - Bronze

Proof in bronze with a brown patina shaded with green depicting "Sarpedon" , son of Zeus and Europa.
Sarpedon , a Lycian hero who took part in the Trojan War against the Achaeans , is shown here bending his bow with a quiver and arrows at his feet .
 Signature of the sculptor "H . PEINTE on the naturalistic terrace , richly chiselled .
Stamp of the founder "SIOT- DECAUVILLE FONDEUR" .
Bronze titled "SARPEDON" on the front of the terrace .
Bronze of old edition , second part of the XIXth century .
Very good condition and patina .

Height : 95 cm

Henri Peinte (1845-1912)

Sculptor of mythological subjects in the 19th century , he was a pupil of Duret and Cavelier .

He exhibited at the Salon of 1877 and won a third class medal and the Salon prize , with a statue of "Sarpedon" .
It is Henri Peinte's best-known work , noticed in the same year by art critics Charles Tardieu , Henri Houssaye and Paul Mantz.
It was made for a Public Garden in Cambrai where it will be installed in 1878 .

A bronze reduction of "Sarpedon" earned him a Grand Prix at the Universal Exhibition of 1889 , the year in which he was decorated with the Legion of Honor .
The original plaster model is currently kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Coulommiers .