Jean Gautherin (1840-1890)
 Allegory of Motherhood
 Bronze
 Nineteenth
 Signed on one side of the terrace "Jn GAUTHERIN", on the opposite side "F BARBEDIENNE, Fondeur".
 H. 85 - L.30 - P. 33 cm
 Bronze group with brown patina representing a woman in medieval clothes carrying a child in her arms, a beautiful allegory of motherhood illustrating the poem by Clotilde de Surville (1405-1498), "Verselets à mon premier-né".
 We can also read on the base plate the first verse:
 SURVILLE CLOTHILDE
 O dear child, true punishment of your father,
 Sleep on the seyn that your bousche has pressed!
 Sleep, little one; cloz, amy, on your mother's seyn,
 Tien doulz carnation by the oppressed sum!
 CLOTILDE de SURVILLE - 1421
 Good condition, beautiful patina.