Lot 74: ALFRED-GUILLAUME-GABRIEL, COMTE D'ORSAY (FRENCH, 1801-1852)

The Duke of Wellington on horseback
Signed and dated COMTE D'ORSAY SCULPT. 1848 and stamped T. W. 24
Bronze, dark-brown patina
16 in. (41 cm.) high

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
(LOTS 74-75)

After seeing d'Orsay's work, a delighted Duke of Wellington declared that he was the only artist who had managed to depict him looking like a gentleman. The Comte d'Orsay was a leading social figure in London and Paris who, among other claims to fame, wrote a fashion column in London's Daily News in the 1830s.

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