Ajax bravant les Dieux (Ajax defying the Gods)
Ajax bravant les Dieux (Ajax defying the Gods)
A monumental bronze sculpture, cast by Charles Crozatier from the model by Louis Marie Charles Henry Mercier Dupaty, circa 1830, previously in the collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
108 in. (275 cm) high
Almost certainly a unique cast from the lost original in marble, commissioned from Dupaty by the French state c.1812, and afterwards displayed at the Palais Royal, for which the plaster modello survives in the Musée des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux