A patinated bronze group of the two fates circa 1890

bronze, dark to light brown patina, with the foundry mark G S / Médaille D'or / 1867, set on a gilt-bronze and black marble plinth.

The subject of the present lot is drawn from a marble figural group lacking its heads which formerly decorated the pediment of the Parthenon.  The original is preserved at the British Museum in London.  Clésinger restored this marble and had published bronzes by Ferdinand Barbedienne cast in  three different sizes.