Bronze Animal Sculptures

A exquisite mid 19th Century Animalier bronze study of a spirited stallion and a tetchy mare, the bronze with fabulous rich brown patina slightly rubbed in areas to a golden hue and ...

"Chien Braque" by Pierre Jules Mêne A very attarctive mid 19th Century Animalier bronze study of a a pointer turning its head in an alert pose with fabulous rich brown patina and ex...

Vintage "Panther" in patinated and sculpted bronze. 1970s

An excellent French mid 19th Century Animalier bronze study of a setter on the prowl with fabulous rich brown patina and very fine hand chased surface detail, raised on naturalistic ...

ABOUT A pair of original bronze plated Irish Setter bookends with original felt on the bottom. Stamped "PMC" Philadelphia Metal Co. Both bookends are in good condition and have reta...

This Vintage Boho Bronze Mice Cradle with Glass Orb exudes whimsical charm and artistic flair, characteristic of American boho style. The intricate bronze mice design cradling a deli...

19th century French bronze sculpture, Faison (Pheasant) signed "F. Pautrot". Bronze figure of a pheasant standing on a naturalistic base. Ferdinand Pautrot (1832 - 1874) was born in ...

Bronzes sculpture of African antelope horns mounted on variegated brown marble pedestal, 23 1/2 inches tall, from Maitland Smith.

Abstract, large (52 inch) patinated bronze sculpture of a seagull in flight attributed to the Thai artist, Hattakitkosol Somchai (1934-2000).

An excellent mid 19th Century Animalier bronze study of a setter in an alert turning pose with very fine rich brown patina and intricate hand chased surface detail, raised on natural...

Very large mid-century period bronze sculpture of a parrot perched on tree branch after after Jules Moigniez (1835-1894), measuring 53 by 24 by 12 inches. Apparently unsigned.

French Art Deco bronze sculpture table lamp by Adolphe Petit-Monsigny, France, ca.1920. Amazing bronze sculpture of an ibis holding an alabaster shade in its beak. Old alabaster cann...

A 19th century wonderfully hand cast bronze of a recumbent mastiff hound, the dog is modeled lying at rest, with a collar around his neck. He is supported on a wonderfully colored m...

Large French Art Deco dragon wall light, France, ca.1930. Bronze and alabaster. Height : 64cm (25.2"), Width : 42cm (16.5"), Depth : 27cm (10.6"). Delivered wired for your country (U...

Large and remarkable, alabaster and brass elephant sculptures pendant light. This rare and remarkable, 8-light chandelier was made in the European Art Deco era (around 1920-1930) an...

Pair of opposing Russian Borzoi bronze dogs from the 1980s. Very well casted with fine detail. The dogs oppose each other with the tails curving in. The front paws are elevated and s...

Mid-century era Etruscan bronze Trojan Horse Figurine Sculpture fixed to a black onyx-colored stone base Attributed to Frederick Weinberg . It is a...

Massive bronze "Greater Kudu" ram sculpture by Loet Vanderveen circa 1980s. The piece is in very good vintage condition with a wonderful patina and measures a substantial 27"W x 16"D...

Bronze heron by American sculptor Wayne Williams. Signed and dated 1993. Edition 2/2. Mounted on a walnut base. From Finger Lakes Magazine 2001: Art is everywhere in the Finger Lakes. Inspired by the region’s diverse scenery and lifestyles, artists pursue their creativity outdoors, in studios and in workshops. In the many well-established museums and galleries or at the newer fledgling arts organizations, a wide array of artistic styles and talents are represented. Often the artists, like Wayne Williams, share their artistic skill and passion through teaching at local colleges. Williams, who is retired after a 35-year career at Finger Lakes Community College, found his calling there. “I didn’t want to teach in public schools,” explains Williams of his career choice. “I wanted to be at the college level. CCFL (the Community College of the Finger Lakes, as it was then known) was literally creating a college, right from scratch.” The year was 1968 and Williams was charged with coordinating the new college’s art program. Rand Darrow, a CCFL student in that first year, remembers attending Williams’ art classes in a commercial building on Main Street just south of the railroad tracks in Canandaigua. Darrow appreciated his instructor’s relaxed manner. “He was a great teacher,” recalls Darrow, “cracking jokes all the time.” Darrow graduated with a major in Liberal Arts and continued on to SUNY Oswego where he earned a BA in fine arts. He taught art to elementary and middle school students for 30 years. These days Williams and Darrow typically cross paths at the Wayne County Arts Council in Newark where Williams and his wife, Marleen, are heavily involved. Williams offers classes in figure drawing and sculpture and hangs the gallery’s shows, including his former student’s “Slavic Tales of Novgorod” this past August. “I’d like to take a sculpture class from him,” says Darrow. In 2003 when Williams retired, the college honored him and another retiring art professor, Tom Insalaco, by renaming its art gallery the Williams-Insalaco Art Gallery. It was known formerly as Gallery 34 to recognize its origins at 34 North Main Street in Canandaigua. Williams held professor’s rank from 1976 and served as director of the art gallery beginning with its opening in 1983. Williams, who was born and raised in Newark, New York, says he began doing art at about age 8. By the time he was in junior high school his career direction seemed clear. He received local and national awards for his art and a scholarship to Syracuse University, from which he graduated in 1958 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture. He continued with graduate work at Syracuse, receiving an MFA in sculpture in 1962. He worked full time as a sculptor until he began teaching. At one point Williams admits he wanted to be a painter, but didn’t want to adopt the abstract expressionist style in vogue in the 1950s, preferring to pursue the realist tradition. He advises any would-be artist to “do what you do because you love it.” After graduation he traveled abroad, spending time in Belgium, the land of his ancestors. “My family’s name was originally Willems,” explains the 73-year old who still relishes the time spent in the Flemish countryside. Williams speaks excitedly about art, referencing the lives of great artists. He acknowledges that American artists do not have the same stature as those in Europe, where Old Masters like Brueghel and Rembrandt are national heroes. These days the energetic Williams, known primarily as a sculptor, is active at the Phelps Arts Center where he is on the board of directors. In mid-September when a group of visitors on a motor coach tour explored artworks displayed in the beautiful church-turned- gallery, they were treated to a large number of Williams’ bronze and metal sculptures, along with his charcoal drawings. “I’ve always loved his work because he deals with things, people, and animals you understand,” says the center’s Director Emeritus Marion Donnelly, who has known him for many years. Outside the Phelps Community Historical Society, Williams’ life-size figure of a farmer raises his pitchfork above a colorful flower garden on the front lawn. Inspired by the peasants working the fields in Europe, the metal figure is shown with wooden shoes. This is Williams’ largest copper piece, loaned to the Phelps museum in connection with Artistry in Sculpture, a community exhibition in 2009. Williams added a new base using a metal wagon...

Rare, excellent condition and superb quality workmanship antique bookends. This pair of small, but incredibly stylish bookends from circa 1920 is an absolute joy to own, to use and ...

Antique Vienna Bronze Bear with Blanket Item e7280 A beautiful bronze statue of a wandering bear spreading out his blanket to rest. A hat and wal...

Vintage Walter Bosse Donkey collectible solid bronze bell from the 1950s. Nice tone. Made in Austria.

After Carl Milles (1875-1955). Bronze sculpture of a wild boar. Foundry mark of Christian Maas. Conceived in 1929 for Lord Melchett's home Melchet Court in Hampshire. Excellent condition. Carl Milles great international breakthrough as a sculptor was the significant exhibition where a selection of his works of art was displayed at the Tate Gallery in London in early 1927. The exhibition was an immediate success and suddenly Milles was a name “on everyone’s lips” among the society in London. He became acquainted with the world-famous author George Bernard Shaw who became enormously fond of Milles artwork and declared when he saw the exhibition "That's the real stuff". Shaw offered to help Milles by joining the committee for the Swedenborg Monument, which was to be built in London, thereby creating increased public interest. The attention also led to a series of invitations and soon several orders for his artwork. One of the delighted visitors of the exhibition was the wealthy Lord Melchett who soon invited the artist to his home Melchet Court in Hampshire. Lord Melchett, who was just renovating his estate, had two large wild boars in bronze ordered for the stairs at the garden of Melchet Court. The magnificent pair of wild boars was completed in 1929 and Milles had been inspired by the famous fountain sculpture Il Porcellino from the early 17th century in Florence. The order of this artwork could hardly have suited Milles better as he was very interested in sculpting large heavy animals such as bears, elephants and wild boars. His sculptures where also often inspired by Ancient Antique mythology and the wild boar is an animal that often appears in the Greek antique stories...

Pair of dark patinated bronze monkey figures, one holding a raised branch and child, the other crouching with an alert expression. Dimension: Standing w/baby: 9 1/2" L x 5" D x 14 ...

A Stewart & Steven Wegner Queen Angel Reef patina bronze sculpture signed and numbered 38/40. Measures 18.75 in tall, and has a 7 in base diameter.

Spectacular and large dolphin door-handle sculpture, France, 1930s-1940s. This magnificent hammered bronze dolphin adorned one of the large glass doors of the Palais de la Mediterran...

The rabbit hunt or group of dogs in the burrow is a bronze sculpture with a brown patina by PJ Mêne Prolific artist, Pierre Jules Mêne 1810-1879, distinguished himself as one of the...

Our patinated bronze sculpture by Dylan Lewis (1964- ) depicts a water buffalo with head lowered. Signed Dylan Lewis 97. 9 3/4 by 18 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of early 20th century bronze statues of Recumbent Lions resting with balls under their pa...

A fine miniature bronze sculpture. Modeled in style similar to the French Animaliers like Barye, Bonheur or Mêne. In the form of a cormorant bird. Mounted on a black wooden square...

Unique bronze limited edition "Gerenuk and Tree" sculpture by Loet Vanderveen, circa 2000s. The piece is in very good vintage condition with a wonderful patina and measures a substan...

French Art Deco bronze rabbit sculpture by Edouard Marcel SANDOZ, Paris, Susse Freres Foundry, France, 1920-1928. Rabbit, head turned. Just 7 co...

Carl Milles (1875-1955), after, bronze sculpture of three fishes. Marked Millesgården. Great condition. Born in Uppsala, Sweden, Carl Milles, whose origina...

World class, aesthetically marvelous and extremely rare rattle snake culpture. Over the decades we have sold some really good antique bronzes, but we feel that this diamondback ratt...

Group of hunting dogs in front of a terrier: bronze sculpture with brown patina signed Arson Alphonse Alexandre Arson (1822-1895) is a French animal sculptor, with birds as his favo...

Carl Milles (1875-1955), after, bronze sculpture of a horse's head. Marked Millesgården. Great condition. Born in Uppsala, Sweden, Carl Milles, whose origi...

A wonderful late 19th Century Animalier bronze study of a timid rabbit in a crouched position with excellent hand chased surface detail and fine colour, signed Dubucand ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 4 cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Circa: 1880 Materials: Bronze Book reference: Animals in Bronze by Christopher Payne SKU: 9013 ABOUT Dubucand Hare Alfred Dubucand (25 November 1828 – 1894) Dubucand was born in Paris and was a French animalier sculptor of the 19th century. His works were often entered into the annual Salon art exhibition in Paris where he contributed works over the course of his career. He was one of the prize pupils of Antoine-Louis Barye. Dubucand made his debut at the 1867 Salon with a wax model of a dead pheasant, a rather inauspicious start when considering the higher quality sculptures he would submit later in his career. He modelled mainly animal groups, producing a number of deer, dog, and horse sculptures. His better casts feature a warm, mid-brown patination, sometimes coming in even lighter shades bordering on a very light yellow, being nearly the colour of the bronze metal itself. He frequently experimented with chemical patinas, learning the patination process from his teacher and mentor Barye who stretched the boundary with his now famous dark green patinas. Dubucand paid strict attention to the anatomical detail of his subjects, often being so concise that he actually showed the veins in the legs of his deer and elk...

A whimsical contemporary studio bronze sculpture titled “Mystic Encounter” by Joseph Quillian. Signed with an annotation of 59/350. Circa 1990s. A classic composition showcasing ocea...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning original Circa 1880 hand made in Italy Grand Tour bronze of the Horses of Saint Marks This is an original example not later reproduction, they have the foundry stamp to the base which I can't find the maker of sadly. These are a very good size and weigh a great deal In terms of the condition there is nothing to note other than good honest age and use related patina, to my hands and eyes it’s in museum quality. Dimensions Height:- 16m Width:- 26cm Depth:- 15.5cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point, if you would like any additional or specific measurements please ask The Horses of Saint Mark (Italian: Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing). The horses were placed on the facade, on the loggia above the porch, of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, northern Italy, after the sack and looting of Constantinople in 1204. They remained there until looted by Napoleon in 1797 but were returned in 1815. The sculptures have been removed from the facade and placed in the interior of St Mark's for conservation purposes, with replicas in their position on the loggia. The sculptures date from classical antiquity. Many scholars believe they were sculpted in the 2nd or 3rd century AD, noting similarities to the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome (c. 175 AD). But some say the evident technical expertise and naturalistic rendering of the animals suggest they were made in Classical Greece of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. In light of their short backs and long legs, it has been argued that they were originally situated above the eye line, probably created to top a triumphal arch or some other grand building. Perhaps commissioned by the Emperor Septimus Severus...

Fearsome even when standing still the Bronze Bear on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the bear is created in pieces and t...

German Art Deco Joseph Franz Pallenberg Bear Patinated Bronze ca. 1920’s Signed “Jos. Pallenberg”. Black patina, original black marble base. Dimensions: Height: 8 inches (...

An attractive limited edition bronze study of a metallic green frog in a seated position with very fine enamel colours and excellent tactile surface, signed Tim, stamped 'Frogman' an...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Panther on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Bronze Panther is created in...

A late Victorian Bronze Pointer by Pierre Jules Mene (1810-1879). Excellent patination, signed 'P.J. Mene' to base. Dimensions: H 11cm W 22cm D 9.5cm Origin: French Date: Circa...

Patinated and polished bronze rooster by Zigfrid Jursevskis the underside with incised signature: "Zigfrid Jursevskis, 77" and numbered 2/15

A vibrant early 20th Century cold-painted Austrian bronze figure of a standing red grouse with very fine hand chased surface detail and and good naturalistic colour, signed ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 15 cm Width: 14 cm Depth: 6.5 cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Circa: 1900 Materials: Cold Painted Bronze Book Ref Antique Vienna Bronzes by Joseph Zobel SKU: 9130 ABOUT Vienna Bronze Grouse...

A bronze gilt sculpture of birds are standing over a tree trunk decorated with leaves and flowers. Round plane base. Signed Pautrot, France circa 1850.

'Elephant du Senegal' A late 19th century bronze sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875) of a charging African Elephant. Excellent green patination and hand chased detail. Signe...

A beautiful bronze sculpture of a grazing of a deer signed by artist Armand Sinko. Dimensions: Base 50cm width, 13 cm deep Sculpture: 47cm width, 26cm height, 9cm depth

Bronze sculpture depicting a moving horse, fixed on a rectangular bronze base. France circa 1890.

20th Century bronze depicting a saddled race horse. After Jules Moigniez (French, 1835-1894). Signed along the top by the hind legs. The bronze is...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Lion with Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Bull Lion statue is created i...

Buddy, sitting Labrador bronze dog sculpture with red collar. Meet Buddy, a limited-edition bronze Labrador sculpture that captivates the heart with...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Horse on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting meth...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Eagle in Flight with Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Eagle in Flight st...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Sparrow on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods th...

An impressive bronze eagle over an altar stick after Archibald Thorburn (Scottish 1860-1935). Features a bronze figure of a perched golden eagle. The eagle is in black with a gold be...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Bird Dog on Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Bronze Bird Dog statue is c...