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Deliverance 
bronze sculpture nude with sword.

Deliverance 
bronze sculpture of a nude with sword by Emile Oscar Guillaume, Barbedienne Foundry Paris. 
France 1914. 

Size including sword:
H. 91 cm x L. 29 cm. x W. 20 cm.
H. 35.8 inch x L. 11.4 inch. x W. 7.9 inch.
Without sword H. 68.5 cm or 27 inch. 

This bronze is illustrated in
Les bronzes de XIXe siècle, Pierre Kjellberg,
Les editions des amateurs.

La Délivrance is a 1914 bronze statue by the French sculptor Émile Oscar Guillaume 1867–1942.
The statue was created as a celebration of the First Battle of the Marne, when the German army was stopped before capturing Paris in August 1914.

The sculpture was created by Guillaume in 1914, originally called La Victoire.
It depicts a naked female figure standing with both feet on a bronze hemisphere.
She lifts her face to the sky and holds both arms aloft, with a sword in her right hand.

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Artist / Maker Emile Oscar Guillaume 

Signature/ Marks Emile Guillaume , Barbedienne Foundry.
Date 1914
Material Bronze.
Origin France
Size (cm) H. 91 cm x L. 29 cm. x W. 20 cm.

Size (inches) H. 35.8 inch x L. 11.4 inch. x W. 7.9 inch. 

Condition Very good.
Literature

This bronze is illustrated in
Les bronzes de XIXe siècle, Pierre Kjellberg,
Les editions des amateurs.

On Friday, 17 October 1919, the French newspaper Le Matin announced that 11 copies of the statue, renamed La Délivrance, would be created by the founders Maison F. Barbedienne and offered to 11 cities of France and Belgium, occupied or destroyed by the Germans: Amiens, Brussels, Colmar, Liège, Lille, Metz, Reims, Mézières, Saint-Quentin, Strasbourg, Verdun.[The statues were cast in a variety of sizes, from 1.1 metres (3 ft 7 in) to 2.6 metres (8 ft 6 in) high.

The first of these statues was offered to Lille, greatest of the cities occupied during World War I. It was unveiled there on 19 October 1919 in a central public park, the Jardin Vauban in the Esquermes district. The nudity of the statue was a cause of trouble and led to withdrawal of the statue in the following years, and it was stored in the Palais Rameau.

In 1927, this copy was given to the city of Nantes and displayed beside the memorial tablets listing the city's war dead at the Quai Ceineray.
After being removed and reinstalled at least twice, it has stood in its present position beside the Hôtel de region since 1987.
Another but smaller copy of the statue exists in the small French town of Chéroy, Yonne, and some others may be still existing in some of the French cities chosen in 1919.

 

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