cast bronze, gilded, overall height: 65 cm
Signed on the side of the base: HKossowski
On the pedestal next to the figure mark: SIOT-DECAUVILLE FONDEUR PARIS, on the base at the back stamped no.: 5176.
State of preservation: repaired spade, the finial element of the column repaired.
Literature:
- Harold Berman, Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, vol. II, published by ABAGE Publishers, 1974, p. 379.
Dated 1890, the composition L'Armurier is one of the best-known works by Henryk Kossowski, a sculptor active between 1880 and 1915.
(Cracow 1855 - Paris 1921)
