# Two Indian Slaves Holding Torches [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TOUSSAINT, François Christophe Armand]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Bronze, brown and gilt patina, height 120 cm \(each\) ## Commentary These figures were commissioned by the French state in1850 for the Palais de l'Elysée and first presented in bronze at the Salon in 1850-1851. The plaster models had been shown three years earlier Each figure is signed and dated: AD. TOUSSAINT. 1850. ## Related artworks - [Two Indian Slaves Holding Torches \(detail\)]() - [Two Indian Slaves Holding Torches \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()