LIFE SIZE Sculpture,KING Henry IV as a child 19 CENTURY old Bronze, Baron BOSIO,

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LIFE SIZE Sculpture,KING Henry IV as a child 19 CENTURY old Bronze, Baron BOSIO,:
$12500.00

hourestate14 store A ten years old king Henry IV, the first of the French Bourbon Kings, by François Joseph Bosio (1768-1845). Often referred to as the most popular French king in history. Life size ! Cast bronze with original patina.
Bronze is approx.48" (121.5 cm) tall.
Heavy !
François Joseph BosioBorn in Monaco, Bosio was given a scholarship by prince Honoré I to study in Paris with the eminent sculptor Augustin Pajou. After brief service in the Revolutionary army he lived in Florence, Rome and Naples, providing sculpture for churches under the French hegemony in Italy in the 1790s. He was recruited by Dominique Vivant in 1808 to make bas-reliefs for the monumental column in the Place Vendôme in Paris and also to serve as portrait sculptor to Emperor Napoleon I and his family. It was in this capacity that he produced some of his finest work, notably marble portrait busts of the Empress Josephine, which was also modelled in bisque Sèvres porcelain, and of Queen Hortense (about 1810), which was also cast in bronze by