After Antonin Mercié (1845 - 1916)

"David", the stoic young Israelite shepherd David sheathing his sword as he stands over the severed head of the Philistine giant Goliath, signed within the sculpture, a Ferdinand Barbedienne bronze sculpture after the original held by the Musée d'Orsay and using Achille Collas's "Reduction Mecanique" process, Barbedienne / Collas foundry marked, originally sculpted 1869, late 19th Century, 61 cm