French school of the second half of the XIXth century after Jean - Pierre Cortot (1787 - 1843) The soldier of marathon announcing the victory Bronze with brown patina Bears the mark of the founder " F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR " and the stamp of " REDUCTION MECANIQUE A. COLLAS " Carries a number " 18 " engraved inside H. 38,6 x W. 42,3 x D. 18,2 cm Related works : - Jean - Pierre Cortot, Le Soldat de Marathon annonçant la victoire, 1834, signed and dated " CORTOT 1834 " on the plinth, H. 206 x W. 220 x D. 86 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. LP 243; - Jean - Pierre Cortot, Le Soldat de Marathon annonçant la victoire, bronze, Barbedienne casting, H. 39 x W. 43 x D. 21 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. RF 388. Related literature: Florence Rionnet, Les Bronzes Barbedienne. L'œuvre d'une dynastie de fondeurs (1834 - 1954), Paris, Arthena, 2016, model listed under Cat. 555, p. 292. In 1822, Jean - Pierre Cortot, student of Antoine Bridan and Grand Prix de Rome in 1809, exhibited the plaster model of this Marathon Soldier announcing victory. The work was so successful that a marble version was commissioned in 1832 to decorate the Tuileries garden before joining the Louvre Museum's collections in 1877 (inv. LP 243). The founder Barbedienne produced a bronze reduction in several sizes from 1862 to 1905.