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A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL ENTITLED 'GRAND CERF DIX-CORS MARCHANT'
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A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL ENTITLED 'GRAND CERF DIX-CORS MARCHANT'

AFTER CHRISTOPHE FRATIN, CIRCA 1880

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A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL ENTITLED 'GRAND CERF DIX-CORS MARCHANT'
AFTER CHRISTOPHE FRATIN, CIRCA 1880
With head turned on a naturalistic oval base, a fox appearing from a burrow below a tree trunk, signed FRATIN
22 in. (56 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Christophe Fratin, 1800-1864, the son of a taxidermist trained under the painter Gericault and exhibited at the Salon up to his death. Two studies of recling deer are illustrated in Jane Horswell, Les Animaliers, p.101. and another cast of this bronze illustrated by Pierre Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe siecle, p.325.

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