Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion) with a Music Box, 1892, Musical Instrument, Music box, Sculpture, The dying lion, lying pierced by a spear, with its head and paw resting on the French coat of arms, is a smaller replica in Swiss walnut wood after Bertel Thorvaldsen's famous sandstone monument in Lucerne, 'Dying Lion (Swiss Lion)'. Swiss Lion Courage. Thorvaldsen's Swiss Lion was created in 1821, as a tribute to the Swiss Guardsmen who died during the Storming of the Tuileries on August 10, 1792, while defending the French King Louis XVI., Wood, Walnut, Metal, Carved, Height (maximum) 18 cm

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