Art nouvea bronze plaque " La marseillaise " Nude Males Start Price USD 150.00 Current Price USD 150.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 30, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 12, 2008 Location Paris See more about 'Art nouvea bronze plaque " La marseillaise " Nude Males' Description   Diameter: 70x51mm (approx.2.5")   Weight: 90g (approx.3oz)   Edge : 4mm France, award art medal / plaquette, in bronze, issued c 1910 by a Physical education and military service preparation union, signed H. Dubois after F.Rude, in excellent condition as scanned, rim nicks, edge marked triangle (Private mint). Obv. figures including a naked muscular man representing the Republic against the background of a bricks wall, Rev. seated woman and naked boy overlooking men in physical training in background, Inscriptions : UNION DES SOCIETES D'EDUCATION PHYSIQUE ET DE PREPARATION AU SERVICE MILITAIRE.  La Marseillaise, the French national anthem written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle on 24 April 1792, became the great rallying call for the French Revolution and was given its name after it was sung on the streets of Paris by troops from Marseille. ABOUT THE ARTIST Henri DUBOIS (1859-1930), French sculptor and medallist, pupil of Chapus, Falguière and of his father Alphée Dubois. He obtained the Second Grand Prix de Rome de gravure en médailles in 1878 (won that year by Louis Bottée). Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1903.In the Magazine of Art in 1900, Mr E.F. Strange writes about H.Dubois (excerpt) : « The work of Dubois belongs to the more cultured and graceful school of the French medallists, and its effect is produced by more delicate and almost classical methods.”. François Rude (June 4, 1784 - November 3, 1855) was a French sculptor. Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but in 1809 he went to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and became a pupil of Castellier, obtaining the Grand Prix in 1812. After the second restoration of the Bourbons he retired to Brussels, where he got some work under the architect Van der Straeten, who employed him to execute nine bas-reliefs in the palace of Tervueren. La Marseillaise by François Rude; Arc de Triomphe, Paris At Brussels Rude married Sophie Freiniet, the daughter of a Bonapartist compatriot to whom he had many obligations, but gladly availed himself of an opportunity to return to Paris, where in 1827 a statue of the Virgin for St Gervais and a Mercury fastening his Sandals (now in the Louvre, Paris) obtained much attention. His great success dates, however, from 1833, when he received the cross of the Legion of Honour for his statue of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy playing with a Tortoise (now in the Louvre), which also procured for him the important commission for all the ornament and one group on the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. This group, La Marseillaise, aka. Départ des volontaires de 1792 (Departure of the Volunteers of 1792), a work full of energy and fire, immortalizes the name of Rude. Amongst other productions we may mention Napoleon Awakening to Immortality (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), the statue of the mathematician Gaspard Monge (1848), Jeanne d'Arc, in the gardens of the Luxembourg (1852), a Calvary in bronze for the high altar of St Vincent de Paul (1855), as well as Hebe and the Eagle of Jupiter (Musee des Beaux Arts, Dijon), Love Triumphant and Christ on the Cross, all of which appeared at the Paris Salon of 1857 after his death. An important pupil of Rude was Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, who subsequently executed his own interpretation of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy (a popular subject at the time).   More Medals? don't forget to visit our STORE eBay.com and also see our Sister Shop on eBay.fr : STORE eBay.fr Each Additional Item is $1.50 extra shipping. 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