A FRENCH BRONZE RELIEF PLAQUE

A FRENCH BRONZE RELIEF PLAQUE

LATE 17TH CENTURY

depicting a scene from a campaign, a general in the foreground directing his troops, with soldiers on horseback sighting a carriage, with a cityscape beyond and a river god in the lower right

12.6 x 26.7cm

Provenance
Purchased Sotheby's, London, 22nd April 1986, European Sculpture, Works of Art and Ironwork, lot 119.

Catalogue Note

See similar reliefs in the Louvre modelled by Desjardins in 1681 for the pedestal of the statue of Louis XIV in the Places des Victoires, Paris, and Souchal, French Sculptors, p.255.