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Lot n° 3

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1747-1828) d'après

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The kiss given and The kiss returned Pair of sculptures in bronze with brown patina from the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century. Presented on white and black marble pedestals with gilt bronze mountings. H. : 28 cm An identical pair is preserved in the Wallace Collection (R. Wesley, French Bronzes in the Wallace Collection, 2002, p. 92) and a similar pair was part of the Anita Semail collection (Choppin de Janvry; Paris, sale of January 30, 2002, lot 148). Provenance: Galerie Laurent Chalvignac; Paris, June 12, 2013.