Zinc casting;
Signed on base;
9.45 × 5.71 × 3.54 in inch
The graceful sculpture *L’Aurore* (*The Dawn*) by the French sculptor Auguste Moreau is a well-known masterpiece of late Romantic sculpture influenced by Art Nouveau. As an allegorical personification of the Roman goddess of dawn, the work depicts a youthful beauty with a delicate, dreamlike expression. She wears a gossamer-thin drapery, whose flowing folds masterfully capture the movement of the wind, while she balances elegantly on clouds or a crescent moon.
Created around 1897, the design proved so successful that later casts were often awarded commemorative plaques for medals won at major art exhibitions. To this day, the work is regarded as a model example of the flowing elegance and refined chiselled craftsmanship of the French Fin de Siècle school.
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