"David vainqueur" (= The winner David)
Signed A. Mercié. Foundry mark Reduction Mecanique. A Collas Preveté. Bronze, dark patina. Height 73.5 cm.
Bought at Bukowskis, 1989, auction S11, catalogue no 720.
Pierre Kjellberg, "Les bronzes du XIXe siècle - dictionnaire des sculpturs", 1989. The composition mentioned and listed at p. 488 and 491. Compare ill at p. 490.
Harold Berman, "Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930", 1980. The sculpture described in volume 1 at p. 157, catalogue no 679. Compare ill at p. 159. Called "David vainqueur".