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Léopold Harzé (1831-1893) was a Belgian sculptor working in Brussels in the mid-nineteenth century. He is well-known for his terracotta pieces but he also made patinated bronze figures. He showed more than a dozen pieces of his work in the 1868 Paris exhibition. George Augustus Henry Sala, one of the famous journalists of the era, commended him highly for his technical skills in depicting different materials and emotions using terracotta and described his work as “the most admirable specimens of purely imitative art that have been seen these thirty years” (1). Some of his works include: Dorine, a figurine of a young woman in bronze and terracotta (1877), The Gossips, The Quarrelsome Blacksmith, Neapolitan Gypsy Dance and The Bottle.

1) George Augustus Henry Sala, Notes and sketches of the Paris exhibition. London, William Cixwes and Sons, 1868.