A French bronze relief plaque, La Pensee (The Thinking) by Henri-Michel Antoine Chapu (1833-1891), founder's mark of Thiebaut Freres, Paris, 61 x 37 cm. Provenance: Christie's Melbourne, 29 March 1993, Lot 217, The bronze is a reduction of the large marble carved for the monument to Comtesse d'Agoult, who wrote under pen name Daniel Stern