Arthur Waagen

Overall the condition of the bronze is very good with minor dirt and wear to the patina consistent with age.
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Although Waagen was born in Memel, East Prussia (now Lithuania), he soon moved to Paris where he permanently settled to pursue a career as a sculptor. Inspired by the fashion for the oriental, he exhibited a number of works with North African themes at the Salon between 1861 and 1887, from his studio at 40, Cours-de-Vincennes. The Kabyle group of a Berber mountain tribesman with his hunting dogs was unquestionably his masterpiece and comparable to many of the finest examples of the genre.

RELATED LITERATURE
C. Payne, Animals in Bronze, Woodbridge, 1988, p.284-85, 423; H. Berman, Bronzes, Sculptors and Founders 1800-1930, vol.4, Illinois 1974-1980, p.1180, no.4743