after Théodore Rivière

Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères: 150 Years of Sculpture, Paris, 1992, p. 45, for the model
Stéphanie Richemond, Les Orientalistes: Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs, XIX^e-XX^e Siècles, Paris, 2008, p. 186

Please note that this group is cast after the model by Theodore Riviere. It is a later reproduction. Overall good condition. The bronze surfaces with minor scratches and some wear consiPlstent with age. On a later red marble base.
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Theodore Rivière studied at the École des Beaux Arts under Jouffroy and Falguière, going on to spend five years working in the studio of Mercié. For a time Rivière lived in Carthage, where he completed his two Orientalist groups based on Flaubert's story of Salammbô, exhibiting them in the 1894 and 1895 salons with great success. He was best known for small scale works and orientalist subjects, but also produced monumental works such as his marble group Les Deux Douleurs exhibited at the Salon of 1903.