Circa 1880s, patinated bronze, signed Dumaige scpt. to base side.

18 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Henry Etienne Dumaige was a French figural sculptor known for depictions of mythological, historical, and genre themes. A student of Jean Feuchère and Christophe Dumont, he went on to exhibit at the Paris Salon several times throughout his life, winning the second-class medal in 1880. He participated in the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris, where he composed two caryatides-women-torchères for the Houdebine foundry. He also made statues for the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, and a marble sculpture of François Rabelais, a French Renaissance poet, located in a small park near the Loire River in Place Anatole, Tours.

Scattered rubbing to patina, else good estate condition.