‘Il Passe Pas’ (‘He Shall Not Pass’) – A Fine White Marble Figural Group

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‘Il Passe Pas’ (‘He Shall Not Pass’) – A Fine White Marble Figural Group of Venus and Cupid by Henri Weigèle.

Signed ‘H. Weigele’ and inscribed ‘‘Il Passe Pas’.

Born in Schierbach, Haut-Rhin, Henri Weigele (1858- 1927) studied sculpture in Paris under Jules Franceschi, (himself a pupil of François Rude), and exhibited frequently at the Salon in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He won the Honorable mention at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1893, followed by a third-class medal in 1907 and a first class medal in 1909.

French, Circa 1900.