A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF A POINTER LOOKING AT A PARTRIDGE

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FRENCH ANIMALIER BRONZES From the 1830s the term 'Animalier' came to refer to a school of sculptors of French origin which attempted to portray animals and birds as they really are. This more realistic, less academic, style of modelling encompassed all manner of subjects, including humble goats and cattle, game, lions and tigers, to equestrian groups and, as in the majority of the examples offered here, sporting dogs. The finest Animaliers sought to imbue their work with the emotions and characters of their subjects which, whilst avoiding sentimentality, gives their sculpture a remarkably animated quality as evident in the examples offered here.

A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF A POINTER LOOKING AT A PARTRIDGE

CAST FROM THE MODEL BY JULES MOIGNIEZ, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Details

A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF A POINTER LOOKING AT A PARTRIDGE
CAST FROM THE MODEL BY JULES MOIGNIEZ, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The naturalistic base signed J. Moigniez
7 in. (18 cm.) high; 12 in. (30 cm.) wide; 4¾ in. (12 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Victor Franses, London

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Lot Essay

Jules Moigniez (d. 1894) was born at Senlis in 1835, studied under Comoléra and made his debut at the Salon in 1855 with a plaster group of a Setter seizing a Pheasant. Awarded a medal at the 1862 Great Exibition in London, Moigniez was fashionable in Britain and it is estimated that up to half of his output was exported. Moigniez père was a metal-gilder who established a bronze foundry in 1857 to cast his son's works. The plaster group of 'A Pointer looking at a Partridge' was exhibited at the 1855 Exposition Universelle.

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