Edouard Letourneau Orientalist Bedouin Arab on Horseback with Concubine Slave
This magnificent bronze by Edouard Letourneau (French, 1851-1907) known as The Captive (or The Slave), depicts an exhausted soldier on horseback, with concubine at his side. Measures 22" wide, 20.5" high and 8.2" deep (55.9 by 52 by 20.8 cm). It is signed in the cast, and we have not found any foundry marks. According to the Benezit, Letourneau was born and worked in Paris, and made is debut at Salon in 1874. Sotheby's reports that he was a pupil of Fremiet. He is known equally for both animalier sculpture and his figurative sculpture, commonly in the exotic, Orientalist style. (Literature: Animals in Bronze, Christopher Payne, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1986, p.355, no. H219.) records a fine North African equestrian subject and he also executed a figure in stone, representing the City of Rouen, which adorns the Stock Exchange in Paris.
