3-021-371 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Statue of a Gaulish Warrior on the Warriors' Gate, Antwerp, 1868. 'The newly- erected gates differ considerably from each other, some being of the Renaissance and others of the feudal castellated style. In the park of the late Paris Universal Exhibition, in the Champ de Mars, was a model of the Warriors' Gate, so called from two statues of ancient Gaulish warriors, seated in a half-recumbent posture, one on each side of the gate, one holding a dart in his hand, the other an axe, with a quiver hung at his back...the statues...are of colossal size, and were cast in zinc and subsequently bronzed. The sculptor of these fine figures is M. Felix Boure, a native of Brussels, and brother to the late Paul Boure, whose untimely death, at twenty-five years of age, deprived Belgium of a genius already renowned in the art of sculpture. M. Felix Boure completed his art-studies in Italy, and is a laureate of the Academy of Florence'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.