Monumental bronze sculpture LIBELLULE or RIVER NYMPH

Extra ordinary beautiful French bronze sculpture "'LA LIBELLULE" by Mathurin Moreau (FRENCH, 1822-1912), representing a river nymph sitting in reeds and surprised by a dragonfly. Bronze on rotating base centered on a cartridge titrating the work and mentioning "MEDAILLE D’HONNER AU SALON". Signed on the base Math. Moreau.

Reference: Dragonfly or Fluvial Nymph. Paris, Fountain of the French Theater. Salon of 1873.
Bibliography: Pierre Kjellberg, bronzes of the nineteenth century, Editions of the Amateur, Paris 1989, page 513