The Actor Rouvière in the Role of Hamlet, Recoiling Before the Ghost, Auguste Préault, 1866

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The Actor Rouvière in the Role of Hamlet, Recoiling Before the Ghost, 1866, French, Paris, Bronze, brown patina, 20 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. ( x cm.), Sculpture-Bronze, Auguste Préault (French, 1809–1879), The composition was designed for the tomb of the actor Philibert Rouvière in Montmarte Cemetery in Paris. The tomb relief was subsequently stolen. In this cast from the Barbedienne foundry, Préault's signature was effaced and replaced with that of the much later sculptor Dalou

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