Artist: Leon Bertaux [imputee] (French, 1825-1909). Title: "Jeune fille au bain - Sara la baigneuse". Medium: Bronze sculpture. Date: Composed c1876. Lot Note(s): Signed "Mme Leon Bertaux" on the sculpture, near the feet. Fine, quality casting. Very good condition; the polished marble plinth in good condition with the expected wear and small losses to the edges. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Anne Pingeot - Antoinette Le Normand-Romain - Laure de Margerie, Musée d'Orsay. Summary illustrated catalog of sculptures, Paris, 1986. Comment(s): Dimensions: height 10 3/8" x width 11 1/8" x depth 7 1/4". Helene Bertaux, born Josephine Charlotte Helen Pilate (better known as Madame Leon Bertaux, or simply Leon Bertaux) was a sculptor and woman's rights activist in the second half of 19th Century. Married but separated from her first husband, she began to sign her works, in 1854, under the name "Madame Leon Bertaux," the name of her companion whom she married in 1866, after the death of her first husband in 1865. [27902-12-1600]