AIMÉ MILLET | LA CHASSE AU LION (THE LION HUNT)

Aimé Millet was born in Paris, son of the miniaturist F. Millet. He was a pupil of David d'Angers and Viollet le Duc. Exhibiting for the first time at the Salon in 1840, he went on to win a first class medal in 1857 and to become a Chavalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1859. The present evocative group encapsulates Millet's skill for monumental groups, in an orientalist style very much en vogue at the time. 

RELATED LITERATURE

S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de L'école Française, Paris, 1914, pp. 451-9