Description
Modelled as a Wounded Hound
From our Sculpture collection we are delighted to offer this French Dog Bronze by Emmanuel Fremiet. The French Bronze modelled as a laying wounded dog having material wrapped around its injury to recover. The Bronze with an oval stepped plinth base the dog lays on a cast textured grassy base. The French Bronze is signed to the front right E. Fremiet and dates to the second half of the 20th century during the Belle Epoque period circa 1885.
Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) born in Paris was a French sculptor famous for his 1874 sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez. Known predominantly for his animalia scupltures he first exhibited in the Paris Salon at the age of nineteen with a sculpture of an Algerian gazelle.
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper with approximately 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such as arsenic or silicon depending on the age of the bronze and its origin. The additions of other metals produce a range of alloys that are usually harder than copper alone and carry useful properties such as strength. The earliest known use of bronze dates to the 5th millennium BCE from Iranian plateau, the bronze mix consists of arsenical copper and copper-arsenide. The earliest tin-copper-alloy recovered is dated to circa 4650 BCE and was found in Plocnik, Serbia. It is believed to have been smelted from a natural tin-copper ore.
Belle Epoque is a period of French, Belgian and European history. It began in the early 1870’s and to ended with the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Measurements 9cm High x 20.5cm Wide x 14cm Deep (3.55 x 8 x 5.5 Inches)
Condition Very Good
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