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Nord - Pas-de-Calais

Avenue du Lieutenant-Colonel Martin

Apollon

Apollo

Greek god, son of Zeus and Leto.

François Sicard
L. Gatti
1930

Description

Bronze statue of Apollo.

Inscription(s)

Signed: F. Sicard 1930
cire perdue / l. gatti / fondeur

Annotation

A copy of this statue is in the Archibald Fountain in Sydney, Australia. The Archibald fountain was erected in Hyde Park North in 1932, a gift to the City of Sydney bequeathed in the will of J F Archibald. It is intended to commemorate the association between Australia and France in the First World. It depicts a bronze Apollo surrounded by other mythical figures. Horses' heads, dolphins and tortoises exuberantly spray jets of water.

Artist

François-Léon Sicard (Tours 1862 - Paris 1934), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Musée d'Orsay, Notice 7699.
L'Avesnois, Villes et villages de l'Avesnois.

Location (N 50°16'40" - E 3°58'30") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frnp018; Photograph: 26 May 2011
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