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Jean BOUCHER (1870-1939) Gaul leaning on his sword or Verdun or The Frankish Knight Ceramic. Signed JEAN BOUCHER. Bears inside the mark in ink of the publisher, LES BLESSES DE L'ATELIER LACHENAL. H.61 cm Chipped. RELATED WORKS : Jean Boucher, Léon Chesnay, Louis-Alfred Barthémy, Monument to the Victory and Soldiers of Verdun, 1926-1929, Verdun, Place de la Libération; Jean Boucher, Gaul leaning on his sword or Verdun or The Frankish Knight, 1920, patinated plaster, signed JEAN - BOUCHER, H. 65 W. 22 D. 20 cm, Cesson-Sévigné town hall. This ceramic print is a reduction of the sculpture on top of the Monument to the Victory and Soldiers of Verdun, created by the architects Léon Chesnay and Louis-Alfred Berthémy and by the sculptor Jean Boucher and inaugurated on 23 March 1929. Through this figure of a Gaul leaning on his sword, Jean Boucher pays tribute to the soldiers of the battle of Verdun and to the French victory. Les Blessés de l'atelier de Lachenal is a ceramic workshop founded by Jean-Jacques Lachenal (1881-1945) at the end of the First World War. The workshop, created for philanthropic purposes to help the wounded of the Great War, was also a place of creation and experimentation for artists between 1920 and 1939.
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Jean BOUCHER (1870-1939) Gaul leaning on his sword or Verdun or The Frankish Knight Ceramic. Signed JEAN BOUCHER. Bears inside the mark in ink of the publisher, LES BLESSES DE L'ATELIER LACHENAL. H.61 cm Chipped. RELATED WORKS : Jean Boucher, Léon Chesnay, Louis-Alfred Barthémy, Monument to the Victory and Soldiers of Verdun, 1926-1929, Verdun, Place de la Libération; Jean Boucher, Gaul leaning on his sword or Verdun or The Frankish Knight, 1920, patinated plaster, signed JEAN - BOUCHER, H. 65 W. 22 D. 20 cm, Cesson-Sévigné town hall. This ceramic print is a reduction of the sculpture on top of the Monument to the Victory and Soldiers of Verdun, created by the architects Léon Chesnay and Louis-Alfred Berthémy and by the sculptor Jean Boucher and inaugurated on 23 March 1929. Through this figure of a Gaul leaning on his sword, Jean Boucher pays tribute to the soldiers of the battle of Verdun and to the French victory. Les Blessés de l'atelier de Lachenal is a ceramic workshop founded by Jean-Jacques Lachenal (1881-1945) at the end of the First World War. The workshop, created for philanthropic purposes to help the wounded of the Great War, was also a place of creation and experimentation for artists between 1920 and 1939.
