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A young peasant woman who seems distraught stands near a road marker and carries a bundle under her arm. This scene, symbolizing the rural exodus, is part of realism, an artistic movement of the late nineteenth century. Based on the original plaster model presented by Antonin Mercié at the 1907 Salon, a marble example was exhibited in 1909. This gilded bronze example published around 1910 by the Siot art foundry in Paris is in perfect condition, the chasing and finishing particularly neat. Numbering, founder's stamp and signature A. Mercié in cursive letters on the base.
Antonin Mercié was born in Toulouse in 1841, a pupil of Falguière and Jouffroy, he won a first prize in Rome in 1868 with "Theseus Conquering the Minotaur", this realistic and moving academic sculptor, advocating patriotism, is one of the great masters of the late nineteenth century. Receiving numerous awards and distinctions, his famous works such as Gloria Victis (original visible at the Petit Pa
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