C. 1880, Émile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin, Bronze and Ormolu Statues of Standing Duelists (French).
 
Wonderful pair of silvered bronze and ormolu, standing swordsman/duelists, on circular bases, crafted by important French sculptor, Émile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin (1841-1907).
 
The detail and lifelike quality and composition of these cavaliers is superb.
 
Each weighs 3.2lbs (total 6.4lbs).
 
Signed.
 
CONDITION:
 
Wear commensurate with age. No damage.
 
PROVENANCE:
 
From the Estate of a Gentleman in Mayfair, London, who collected bronze sculptors and had loaned over 1,000 sculptures to museums and exhibits around the world.
 
ABOUT ÉMILE CORIOLAN HIPPOLYTE GUILLEMIN:
 
Émile was born in Paris on November 16, 1841 and died in the same city in 1907. He was an important French sculptor, and studied under his father, the Painter, Auguste Marie Guillemin; and Jules Jules-Salmson. He exhibited at the Salon from 1870 until 1899, and further obtained an honorable mention in 1892. In 2008, his 1884 bronze sculpture 'Femme Kabyle d'Algerie and Janissaire du Sultan Mahmoud II' (Kabyle woman from Algeria and Janissary of Sultan Mahmound II) sold for $1.2million USD in New York to a private collector through Sotheby's Auction House. Émile specialized in figurative works and was greatly inspired by the Middle East and its exoticism.