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Duret’s original large bronze, first exhibited at the Salon of 1839, was shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris of 1855, where the present bronze reduction by Barbedienne was purchased.  The original was bought by the Louvre in 1858.  It was one of the most important early Romantic sculptures.\r\n\r\nThis cast, using Achille Collas' mechanical reduction method, reproduces the large bronze shown at the Paris Salon in 1839. 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Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 50."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Avery, C. \"From David d'Angers to Rodin - Britain's national collection of French nineteenth-century sculpture\". <u>In</u>: <u>The Connoisseur</u>, April 1972, vol. 179, no. 722, p. 234, fig. 4."}],"production":"Smaller reproduction of the large bronze shown at the Paris Salon in 1839","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"musical instruments","id":"AAT41620"},{"text":"vines","id":"AAT132406"},{"text":"men","id":"AAT25928"},{"text":"musicians","id":"AAT25666"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'\r\n\r\nThis cast, using Collas' mechanical reduction method, reproduces the large bronze shown at the Paris Salon in 1839. 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