.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
Like the following lot, of which it is an excerpted modification, Cavalier arabe tuant un sanglier relates to the group Chasse au lion from the Orléans surtout de table. The model was first offered for sale in Barye's 1862 catalogue and posthumous editions were cast by Brame in 1876 and again around 1900.
Although its underside bears no lot number (158) from the 1876 Atelier sale, the waxy surface, areas of darker patina concealing joints of individual sections, and the presence of unfinished joints and assembly pins, namely to the jaw of the boar, lead one to ask whether the present cast may in fact be the bronze modèle for this work, which Poletti & Richarme record as whereabouts currently unknown. Its last appearance was in the Aimé Diot sale (hôtel Drouot, 8-9 March 1897, lot 202, 420 francs), which interestingly also included the modèle for Chasse à l'élan, offered in this sale (see lot 100).
Although its underside bears no lot number (158) from the 1876 Atelier sale, the waxy surface, areas of darker patina concealing joints of individual sections, and the presence of unfinished joints and assembly pins, namely to the jaw of the boar, lead one to ask whether the present cast may in fact be the bronze modèle for this work, which Poletti & Richarme record as whereabouts currently unknown. Its last appearance was in the Aimé Diot sale (hôtel Drouot, 8-9 March 1897, lot 202, 420 francs), which interestingly also included the modèle for Chasse à l'élan, offered in this sale (see lot 100).