Flore et L'amour and Hamadryade
A pair of 19th Century cast iron groups of Flore et L'amour and Hamadryade, after Antoine Coysevox, (1640-1720). Each nymph depicted with a putto at her back and seated on a tree trunk. Both signed on the base "Coysevox 1710". The casts for these groups were produced in the second half of the last century by JJ Ducel whose foundries were taken over by the Val D'Osne foundry in 1870. These particularly fine casts could have been produced from either foundry. The original marble groups were commissioned for the Pavilion Royal at Marly but now stand in the Louvre.
Ref. F. Souchal French Sculptors of the17th and 18th Century.
Height:
statues 180cm
plinths: 104cm
Overall height: 284cm