Lot 132
132
A FRENCH GILT AND POLYCHROME PATINATED BRONZE GROUP OF AN ARAB HUNTER, ENTITLED 'KABYLE AU RETOUR DE LA CHASSE'
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A FRENCH GILT AND POLYCHROME PATINATED BRONZE GROUP OF AN ARAB HUNTER, ENTITLED 'KABYLE AU RETOUR DE LA CHASSE'

CAST FROM THE MODEL BY ARTHUR WAAGEN, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH GILT AND POLYCHROME PATINATED BRONZE GROUP OF AN ARAB HUNTER, ENTITLED 'KABYLE AU RETOUR DE LA CHASSE'
CAST FROM THE MODEL BY ARTHUR WAAGEN, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Signed 'Waagen Sculp'
35 ¼ in. (89.5 cm.) high; 29 in. (74 cm.) high; 13 in. (33 cm.) deep

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Born in East Prussia (now Lithuania), Arthur Waagen (d. 1898) pursued his career as a sculptor in Paris where he set up his studio at 40, Cours-de-Vincennes. He was renowned for his fine and realistic modelling, and produced a series of groups with a North African flavour, exhibiting at the Salon from 1869 to 1887. The present group of a Berber tribesman, also known as Chasseur arabe or Cavalier aux chiens, was conceived circa 1870. A fine example of the Orientalist genre, it is the artist's most prominent and successful model. Another cast is in the Dahesh Museum, New York.

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