Art Nouveau Animal Sculptures

20th century cast bronze statue of a cherub angel signed by Ferdinando de Luca, Italy Beautiful statue with a cherub and two devils with impresionant faces featuring a minotaur’s m...

Garniture of bronze figures, depicting a scene of hunters with an elephant with a dead tiger strapped securely on top of it, accompanied with one hunter and another at his side with ...

An unusual large art pottery figure of a grotesque smiling cat with glass eyes from an original design by Blanche Vulliamy made by Charles Hubert B...

Classic early 1910s Vienna bronze figurine. This polychromed cold painted bronze is probably something you need if you’re a Vienna bronze collector. Found at an estate sale in Vienna...

Classic early 1910s Vienna bronze figurine. This polychromed cold painted bronze is probably something you need if you’re a Vienna bronze collector. Found at an estate sale in Vienna...

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Onyx Plinth From our Sculpture collection, we are delighted to offer this Austrian Cold Painted Bronze Horse. The Bronze mounted upon a squared green onyx base with a convex beading...

Early 20th century porcelain pig. Beautifully patinated and crackled creamy white glaze. Quite possibly an old piggy bank, fed through bottom since slot ...

Rare and gorgeous eagle perfume lamp attributed to Carl Scheidig Grafenthal, Germany. Excellent condition, lamp is in working order. Size: Height ...

Bronze figurine of a hunting dog, signed E. DELABRIERRE. Bronze figurine depicting a hunting dog sitting next to a pheasant. The dog displays an alert posture with its head slightly ...

Excellent French mid 19th Century Animalier bronze group of a stag and doe in a wooded landscape exhibiting excellent hand finished surface detail and rich brown patina, raised on an...

Pair of Glazed Ceramic Flower Vases by Delphine Massier, France, circa 1890.

A striking French Animalier gilt and patina tied bronze study of a seated Alsatian in alert pose with head turned slightly and ears pricked. The surface with excellent naturalistic detail and very fine colour, signed L.Riché and stamped with foundry seal for Thiebaut Frères Additional information Height: 50 cm Width: 46 cm Condition: excellent original condition Foundry: Thiebaut Frères Circa: 1910 Materials: Bronze SKU: 7528 ABOUT Louis Riché Bronze...

Charming mid 19th Century French gilt bronze study of two rabbits standing in alert positions outside their burrow. The bronze exhibiting excellent han...

1910s Belle Époque cold-painted small bronze figurine of a pair of hounds/dogs by Franz Bergmann, Austria By: Franz Bergmann Material: bronze, paint, copper, metal Technique: cast, ...

A charming modern persepolis blue crystal glass study of a seated baby elephant with excellent textured surface detail and deep rich colour, signed Lalique France ADDITIONAL INFORM...

Pair of blue swans in Murano.

An unusual porcelain figurine displaying a putto being deloused by a monkey. This figurine was created by the German designer Ferdinand Liebermann in 1910 and manufactured Rosenthal ...

Classic early 1910s metal (bronze) figurine. Shows a beautiful pug dog. Found at an estate sale in Vienna, Austria. It's fixed on a marble base. This one is singed with a signature a...

An excellent frosted glass figure of a crouched sparrow with its head turned cleaning beneath its wings exhibiting good hand finished detail, signed Lalique France to base ADDITIONA...

A charming Austrian cold painted bronze depicting three monkeys riding on the back of three running dogs in the manner of Franz Xaver Bergman (Austrian, 1861-1936) and dating from ar...

Bisquit Porcelain Sculpture "Cat No. 2" by Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, 1920s

A very handsome antique French Animalier bronze greyhound sculpture, paperweight, circa 1900. The bronze in the style of Emmanuel Fremiet, mad...

An unusual porcelain figurine displaying a putto being deloused by a monkey. This figurine was created by the German designer Ferdinand Liebermann in 1910 and manufactured Rosenthal ...

An endearing late 19th Century Animalier bronze study of a reclining doe with excellent rich brown, black and green patina and very fine hand chased surface detail. Raised on an inte...

Art Nouveau cold-painted bronze small elephant figurine by Franz Bergmann, Austria By: Franz Bergmann Material: bronze, paint, copper, metal, bone Technique: cast, cold-painted, pai...

Art Nouveau style brass horse sculpture in the manner of Curtis Jere.  

Antique Vienna bronze sculpture of a cat by Bergman. Stamped FB and Geschutzt. Cold painted patina. This model is illustrated in “Antique Vienna bronzes” by Joseph Zobel. Schiffer. M...

Vintage Danish Porcelain figurine Siamese cat by Bing & Grøndahl. Porcelain figurine of a Siamese cat designed by artist Svend Jespersen in t...

Excellent French mid 19th Century Animalier bronze portaiture study of the French Derby winner "Ibrahim", with rich brown lightly rubbed patination and fine hand finished surface det...

"It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, and voluptuous pleasures." - Charles Baudelaire Iridescence, which changes in every angle of reflected light, is the perfect complement to a cat’s capricious nature. Zsolnay introduced its patented shiny metallic glaze, known as eosin, in 1893. The small family ceramics workshop begun in Pecs, Hungary by Miklos Zsolnay in 1853 had evolved into a world-class ceramics factory by this time. Zsolnay walked away with the Grand Prix at the 1878 World’s Fair in Paris for its art pottery. Under the stewardship of Vilmos Zsolnay...

An endearing early 20th Century patinated bronze study of a standing terrier with excellent textured surface detail and colour, raised on a bronze base and signed PB Parsons ADDITI...

This is a P.J.Mene patinated bronze sculptures of a pair of hunting dogs. He is considered one of the pioneers of animals sculpture of the 19th century. The sculptures feature a hairy whippet dog standing with its frontal paws over an English Setter dog...

A large and rare antique Austrian gilded bronze desk set/sculpture, modeled as a Pug dogs with her two puppies, documented, circa 1910. To the center i...

This is a Royal Copenhagen porcelain of small bright and colorful bird figurine known as a Blue Tit. At the base is the Royal Copenhagen hallmark with the num...

"Taureau Debout" by Rosa Bonheur. An excellent late 19th Century French animalier bronze study of a standing bull with fine hand chased surface that accentuates the muscle definition of the subject, signed Rosa B. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Measures: Width: 32 cm Height: 18 cm Depth: 11cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Circa: 1870 Materials: Bronze Book reference: Animals in Bronze by Christopher Payne Page no. 174 DESCRIPTION Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) The most popular artist of nineteenth-century France, Rosa Bonheur was also one of the first renowned painters of animals and the first woman awarded the Grand Cross by the French Legion of Honor. A professional artist with a successful career, Bonheur lived in two consecutive committed relationships with women. Born on March 16, 1822 in Bordeaux, Marie Rosalie Bonheur was the oldest of the four children of Raimond Oscar Bonheur (1796-1849) and Sophie Marquis. Bonheur's father was an art teacher who came from a poor family, while her mother, a musician, had descended from a middle-class family and had been her husband's art student. Bonheur's father, who taught drawing and landscape painting, was an ardent member of the utopian Saint Simeon society. The group held idealistic beliefs about the reform of work, property, marriage, and the role of women in society. Most importantly, for the artist's future, the Saint Simeons questioned traditional gender norms and firmly believed in the equality of women. While teaching artistic techniques to his oldest daughter, Raimond Bonheur also encouraged her independence and taught her to consider art as a career. In 1828 Raimond Bonheur joined the Saint Simeons at their retreat outside Paris. Sophie and the children joined him in Paris the following year. Four years later, however, Raimond abandoned his family to live in isolation with his fellow Saint Simeons. Sophie Bonheur died in 1833 at the age of thirty-six. Rosa was only eleven years old when her mother died, but she was aware of the heavy price her mother paid for married life with a man who was more dedicated to his own ideals than to meeting his family's needs. Rosa also saw that her mother's marriage led to poverty and her death from exhaustion. After her mother's death, Bonheur was taken in by the Micas family who resided nearby. Mme Micas and Bonheur's mother had been friends. When Mme Bonheur died, the Micas family paid Raimond Bonheur's debts and cared for Rosa. Their daughther, Nathalie, who would later become an amateur inventor and unschooled veterinarian, and Rosa became enamored with each other. When Rosa Bonheur began her career as a professional artist, she had already been trained by her father who had allowed her to study in all male classes. Rosa also learned by sketching masterworks at the Louvre from the age of fourteen, and later, by studying with Léon Cogniet. From the very beginning, Bonheur's favorite subject was animals. She learned their anatomy completely by dissecting them in local slaughterhouses. She also visited the horse market two times a week. Study of animals by direct observation led to the formation of the realist style in which Bonheur worked. It was for such work that Bonheur obtained written permission from the French government to wear men's slacks. Her working attire also consisted of a loose smock and heavy boots that protected her feet from the dangerous environment in which she painted. The style of dress that the artist adopted for work and home may well have been influenced by her father's attire, which was based on St. Simeonian clothing experiments. Bonheur also cropped her hair, perhaps to facilitate her work. She did, however, always wear dresses for social occasions because she knew that appropriate dress would further her career. Bonheur earned a successful living as a painter of animals. She exhibited at the annual Paris Salon regularly from the age of nineteen in 1841 through 1853, when she was thirty-one. She won the salon's gold medal at the age of twenty-six in 1848 and was commissioned by the French government to paint Plowing on the Nivernais in 1849. In the same year Bonheur and her sister Juliette became directors of l'École gratuite de dessin pour les jeunes filles, a post their father had once held. Bonheur completed her most renowned work, The Horse Fair, in 1855. The successful representation of percherons (a breed native to Normandy) was purchased by Ernest Gambart, a London art dealer whose gallery specialized in work by French artists. He exhibited The Horse Fair in London where Bonheur visited with Nathalie. Queen Victoria requested a private viewing of the painting at Windsor Castle. It would later be purchased in 1887 by Cornelius Vanderbilt and donated to the new Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur's trip to England allowed her to meet Charles Eastlake, then President of the Royal Academy, John Ruskin, the English writer and critic, and Edwin Landseer, the British animalier. She also toured the English and Scottish countrysides and executed some paintings based on her observations of new breeds of animals found there. Gambart made engravings of Bonheur's work, including The Horse Fair, and sold them in England, Europe, and the United States. Bonheur became one of the most renowned painters of the time. Little girls, such as Anna Klumpke in the United States, even had dolls in her likeness, much as American girls played with Shirley Temple dolls...

Belle Époque german glazed porcelain figurine of a brass playing frog by Goebel Company By: Goebel Company Material: porcelain, paint, ceramic Technique: glazed, hand-painted, painted, molded, pressed Dimensions: 4.5 in x 3 in x 5 in Date: early 20th century Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Belle Époque Place of origin: Germany This is a small sculpture made of german hand-painted and glazed porcelain depicting an anthropomorphic frog seated wearing classicist costume and wig characteristic of the period. The figure holds a brass instrument (probably a cornet or a trumpet), as if playing a tune. Underneath the base can be seen the stamp of the Goebel Company prior to 1923. German porcelain manufacturers like Goebel were known for their high quality porcelain with delicate modeling and hand-painting. The Jugendstil and Art Nouveau styles were popular in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Figurines like this frog musician...

This is a Hutschenreuther porcelain group sculpture/figurine that is depicting a mother sparrow feeding one of her two baby birds. They are hand painted dark chocolate/black in the b...

A Gilt bronze elephant figure signed E. Bernoud 19th-20th century This Cute elephant bronze is in very good conditions! For animals figurine lovers! this piece is a perfect match ...

Table lamp "Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty" Materia: silver plated metal Country: France Glass: Schneider To take care of your property and the lives of our customers, the new wir...

Entrancing mid 20th Century French pate-de-verre vide-poche decorated with variegated colours of greens and browns with a raised figure of a snake exhibiting fine translucent colour ...

Carved and polychromed wood; retains original painted surface. Glass Eyes. Attributed to John Dawson, Trenton, New Jersey, 1900-1925. Dawson worked as a ki...

A charming late 19th Century French animalier bronze group of a family of hounds. The bronze of three seated dogs including a mother, father and pup exhibiting excellent rich brown p...

A very fine early 20th Century Austrian bronze study of a standing pig with excellent gilt colour and very fine hand finished surface detail, signed with the Bergman 'B' in an amph...

Antique bronze table bell cat in a top hat. France 1880-1900

An exceptional piece! Superb sculpture floor lamp in patinated and painted bronze and brass, depicting a Japanese crane (tsuru) / heron / wading bird picking red berries in the middle of lush nature (flowers, water lily leaves). 5 lights with tulip shades in glass / opaline colors. Art Nouveau / Japonisme style, France, around 1900. Inspired by the productions of Meiji Japan, which was opening up to the rest of the world, Western artists, particularly the French, were inspired by them. The movement called "Japonisme" was born and from it flowed Art...

Classic early 1950s metal (bronze) figurine. Shows a beautiful pug dog. Found at an estate sale in Strasbourg, France. A nice addition to any collection. You can use it also as pape...

Vintage wooden sculpture realized in eastern Europe in the beginning of 20th Century. Painted and lacquered wood. Excellent condition.

Bronze Sculpture. Moreau Mathurin Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) was a French sculptor of the academic style. Born in Dijon, he was renowned for his sculptures exhibited at the Salon,...

Sculpture after derby. Material: Pewter with silver patina. Origin Germany Circa 1900. Good condition natural wear. Racehorse and Jockey. Patinated wooden base. Art nouveau...

A striking Art Nouveau French grès art pottery figure of a dog, signed and crafted at the Rambervillers manufactory, by renowned ceramist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Cytère (École de Nanc...

Cast bronze and marble shepherdess with sheep sculpture signed D. Alonzo. France, early 20th century.

Snake charmer Fire-gilt bronze by A. Lefebvre, signed with foundry stamp Original art nouveau, France around 1900 Dimensions: Height: 75 cm Diameter, base: 18 cm.

French bronze and marble lion figure by PAUL ÈDUARD DELABRIÉRRE. "Reclining lion." Beautiful French figure of a prostrate lion in brown patina, with a reddish marble base by sculptor...

Bronze Sculpture. Karl Sterrer Date of birth December 4, 1885 Birthplace Vienna Date of death June 10, 1972 Place of death Vienna Professional painter....

Materials: Silvered bronze and marble We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982.If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'View All From Seller'. And you can see more objects to the style for sale. Amedeo (sometimes Amadeo) Gennarelli (1881-1943) An Italian/French sculptor, he was a pupil of Francesco Jerace...

An endearing early 20th century bronze study of an owl perched upon a branch with excellent colour and very fine smooth tactile surface, signed and dated 1921 Additional information...

19th century Art Nouveau silvered bronze sculpture of female hen by A. Grevin & F. Beer. Women Dressed as a Hen, she has a basket of eggs. On circular base incised " A. Grevin et Be...

Table lamp "Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty" Materia: silver plated metal and art glass Country: France Glass: Muller To take care of your property and the lives of our customers, ...

Equestrian silvered bronze table push bell. Man riding a horse, or as soon in several british drawings, it can be a fox hunting scene. Classy way to signal y...