One of the two art pieces that were chosen from the McNay Art Museum is the Gloria Victis statue, a bronze statue by Antonin Mercié, size is 1879 height, 55in (139.7cm). The second is Women by Jose Clemente Orozco, an lithograph from 1935, 12 5/16 x 17 1/8" (31.2 x 43.5 cm); sheet: 14 3/16 x 20 1/16" (36 x 51 cm) .
The artist for the Gloria Victis is sculptor Marius Jean Antonin Mercie, who study fine art in the PSL Research University in Paris, French. He was a successful sculptor and it was in Rome in 1874, where he created the Gloria Victis, in memorial of the French - Prussian War. Originally, the angel figure was going to support a victorious French soldier, but upon the news that French surrender the war,