Bronze Animal Deer and Fawn Late 19th Century Signed Fratin

Mouflon resting bronze with medal patina by Christophe Fratin (1801-1864). XIXth century signed on the terrace. Dedication on the back of the Fleur Quesnel terrace. Dimension 17.5 cm...

Deer at rest bronze by Robert Bousquet XIXth century, height 15 cm for a length of 21 cm and a depth of 11 cm. Additional information: Material: Bronze.

19th century animal bronze signed Robert Bousquet (1894-1917) dated 1911 representing a humped Egyptian cow called gamus Dimension length 53 cm for 31 cm high and 13.5 cm deep. Addi...

19th century Mouflon at rest bronze with medal patina by Christophe Fratin (1801-1864) signed on the terrace. Dedication on the back of the Fleur Quesnel terrace.

Excellent late 19th century animalier bronze study of a feeding reindeer with rich brown colour and very fine hand chased and etched surface detail, raised on a stepped naturalistic base, stamped with Peyrol Foundry mark and signed Isidore Bonheur Additional information Height: 16 cm Width: 22 cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Foundry: Peyrol circa: 1880 Materials: Bronze SKU: 8211 DESCRIPTION Isidore Bonheur Isidore Bonheur, born in Bordeaux May 15 1827. Isidore was the third child of Christine Dorotheé Sophie Marquis (1797–1833), a musician, and Oscar-Raymond Bonheur (1796–1849) (a landscape and portrait painter and an early adherent of Saint-Simonianism, a Christian-socialist sect that promoted the education of women alongside men). Isidore was the brother of Auguste Bonheur...

An Italian animalier bronze casting sculpture of a female roe deer, standing on an oval shaped bronze base and signed Buonapace near the left hind leg by the Italian artist Francesco Buonapace (Lecce 1902- Bologna 1975). This animal sculpture is a lovely Art Deco decorative item...

French bronze figure of bull with attacking dog on an oval base (Valton) (19/20th Cent.)

This large French bronze sculpture depicts a family of deer traversing across a rocky terrain dotted with flowers. Sculpted in the late 1800s by Clovis-Edmond Masson, the sculpture has fantastic movement, as all three deer are depicted in full stride, with their hooves off the ground. The largest of the group is a stag with a wide antler spread and detailed musculature. To the stag’s left is a doe looking back towards a fawn, who is looking up at the stag. The sculpture has a rich, green-brown patination with areas that have retained the gold of the bronze. Behind the doe are two engravings: “C. Masson” and “Salon des Beaux-Arts”, indicating that the sculpture is the work of Clovis-Edmond Masson and was exhibited at the Paris Salon (the original). Clovis-Edmond Masson was born in Paris in 1838 and specialized in sculptures that accurately depicted animal behavior. Masson exhibited at the Salon regularly from 1867-1881, placing this sculpture in that time frame. The most famous work by Masson was commissioned by Rama V...