Frederique Batholdi 1834-1904 Bronze Lion Of Belfort Thiebaut Founder

Lion of Belfort Frederique Bartoldi 1834-1904 this beautiful historical work in bronze (reduction) is presented on a red-orange griotte marble signed on the terrace and bears the Fumiere and Thiebaut cast iron stamp between 1906 and 1926 beautiful light brown patina sand cast around 1910. The one located in the center of Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris 14th was made of embossed copper. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, born August 2, 1834 in Colmar and died October 4, 1904 in Paris, is a French sculptor and painter and, at the beginning, an amateur photographer of travel photography. He is notably the author of the famous Statue of Liberty (whose exact title is Liberty Enlightening the World), offered by France to the United States and erected in 1886 on Liberty Island, at the entrance to the port of New York. His rare paintings are generally signed with the pseudonym "Amilcar Hase". From 1875 to 1879, he created the Lion of Belfort, a monumental stone high-relief sculpture located in Belfort in France at the foot of the cliff of the citadel. The work represents a lion lying on a rock pedestal, its paw resting on an arrow that it has just stopped. This animal symbolizes the resistance of the city besieged by the Prussians during the war of 1870, at the end of which the area, corresponding to the current Territoire de Belfort, will be the only part of Alsace to remain French.