"Pursuit"
Pair of bronzes representing Atalanta and Hippomenes bearing the seal of Achille Colas, before 1845. After the marble sculptures commissioned by Louis XIV from Guillaume Coustou and Pierre Lepautre for the Château de Marly. Atalanta is a woman opposed to the marriage predicted for her by an oracle, ready to marry the one who would beat her in a foot race, the losers paying the stake with death. Hippomenes, in love with Atalanta, with the help of Aphrodite, who provides him with three golden apples picked in the garden of the Hesperides, throws them during the race to distract the nymph, picking them up she is overtaken and loses the race.......... Very beautiful patina. 
Le Magazine de PROANTIC
TRÉSORS Magazine
Rivista Artiquariato
