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Title
La délivrance (The Naked Lady)
Date
1914 & 1927
Medium
bronze & pink granite
Accession number
N3_GT_S003
Acquisition method
donated to Finchley Urban District Council by Viscount Rothermere
Work type
Statue
Owner
Barnet Borough Council
Custodian
Barnet Borough Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II* (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
20th October 1927
Listing date
18/02/16
Access
at all times
Inscription description
incised into base: LA DÉLIVRANCE / THIS STATUE BY EMILE GUILLAUME SYMBOLIZES / THE EMOTION INSPIRED AMONG THE ALLIED NATIONS / WHEN THE ARMIES OF BRITAIN AND FRANCE / DEFEATED THE INVADING GERMAN ARMIES / AT THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE SEPTEMBER 1914 / PRESENTED BY VISCOUNT ROTHERMERE’; on information board: LA DÉLIVRANCE / BY EMILE GUILLAUME (1867-1942) / THIS STATUE, LA DÉLIVERANCE, KNOWN LOCALLY / AS THE NAKED LADY, IS AN ALLEGORICAL / COMMEMORATION OF THE VICTORY OF FRANCE AND / HER ALLIES OVER GERMANY IN THE FORST WORLD WAR (1914 - 1918) - IN PARTICULAR, THE FIRST BATTLE OF / THE MARNE (SEPTEMBER 1914), THAT HALTED THE / INITIAL GERMAN THRUST THROUGH FRANCE AND THUS / PREVENTED PARIS FALLING INTO GERMAN HANDS. / THE ORIGINAL OF THE STATUE WAS EXHIBITED AT THE PARIS SALON IN 1920, IT WAS SEEN AND / ADMIRED BY VISCOUNT ROTHERMERE (1868-1940), / PROPRIETOR OF THE DAILY MAIL NEWSPAPER, WHO / COMMISSIONED A COPY. HE CHOSE THE LOCATION, / WHICH HE KNEW WELL, FROM PASSING IT WHEN HE, / VISITED HIS MOTHER. IN HER MEMORY, HE PRESENTED / THE STATUE TO FINCHLEY URBAN DISTRICT / COUNCIL. IT WAS UNVEILED BY THE RT. HON. DAVID / LLOYD GEORGE (PRIME MINISTER FROM 1916-1922) ON 20 OCTOBER 1927, BEFORE AN ASSEMBLY / OF LOCAL DIGNITARIES AND A CROWD OF OVER 8,000. / ALTHOUGH LA DELIVRANCE IS NOT AN OFFICIAL FINCHLEY WAR MEMORIAL, IT IS LISTED AS No.3129 ON THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS NATIONAL INVENTORY OF WAR MEMORIALS. iNFORMATION PANEL ERECTED BY THE FINCHLEY SOCIETY, 2007, FUNDED BY THE PEGGY WELLS BEQUEST. WWW.FINCHLEYSOCIETY.CO.UK
