Pierre Jules Mène

Pierre Kjellberg, Bronze of the 19th Century, ed. Schiffer Publishing LTD, USA, 1994, p.477 (for the illustration of an identical model); C. Payne, Animals in Bronze, Woodbridge, 1988, p.355, H221; S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dix-neuvième siècle, Paris, 1914, vol.3, p. 430

Overall in good condition with the usual minor wear in places. Lacking the falcon muzzle.
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The original wax model was exhibited at the Salon of 1873 entitled Chasse au faucon and the following year a bronze version was submitted. An immensely impressive group, examples are in the permenant collection of museums at Morlaix, Toulon and the Château de Compiègne. A silvered bronze version was exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Centennale de l'Art Français (no. 1735) while a cast with an ivory head, arms and legs was sold at Sotheby's New York on October 5, 2000, lot 198.