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H ca. 163 cm Provenance: - A Belgian private collection. Ref.:- P. Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siecle, Paris, 1989, pp. 435. Eugene-Louis Lequesne (or Le Quesne) was a French sculptor. Lequesne was born and died in Paris. In 1841, he entered the ecole nationale des beaux-arts, in James Pradier's workshop. In 1843, he won the second Prix de Rome, and in 1844 the first prize, with a plaster bas-relief entitled Pyrrhus tuant Priam (Pyrrhus killing Priam). He lived at the Academie de France a Rome from 1844 to 1849, alongside Jean-Louis Charles Garnier. In 1855, he was awarded the Great Prize for sculpture at the Exposition Universelle, and received the Legion d'honneur. Major works from his hand are: - two figures representing Rouen and Amiens, on the façade of the Gare du Nord, Paris, circa 1862 - a colossal finial figure of La Bonne Mere (The Good Mother), Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille, 1867 - a plaster figure of Camulogene, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1872 - two Pegasus figures, Palais Garnier, Paris - Faune Dansant (Dancing Faun), Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris - La Foi, La Charite et L'Esperance (Faith, Charity and Hope), eglise de la Sainte-Trinite, Paris - two medallions on the façade of the Musee de Picardie in Amiens: Thuillier Constant and Du Cange - two caryatids on the façade of the Musee de Picardie in Amiens: L'Industrie and La Sculpture - Masque d'Homere (Mask of Homer), Museum of Beaufort - Faune Dansant (Dancing Faun), Musee des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux - Pretresse de Bacchus (Priestess of Bacchus), Musee des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai - a quoi revent les jeunes filles (What young girls dream of) and Vercingetorix vaincu defiant les soldats romains (Defeated Vercingetorix defying Roman soldiers), Museum of Chartres - Le buste de Laennec (Bust of Laennec), Faculte de medecine de Paris - Thuillier, Museum of Roanne - Le Marechal de Saint-Arnaud (Marshal Saint-Arnaud), Palace of Versailles - Renommee retenant Pegase (Renown holding back Pegasus), Musee d'Orsay, Paris