Clovis Masson Bronze Walnut Mouse

Mouse nibbling a walnut in gilded bronze, signed in hollow C.Masson, for Clovis-Edmond Masson, on marble base. Total height 9.5 cm, height of the bronze alone 7.5 cm Dimensions of the base 9.7x6.4 cm Clovis-Edmond Masson, born March 7, 1838 in Paris, died in 1913, French animal sculptor, pupil of Santiago, of Barye and Rouillard, he exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1868 to 1881 and obtained an honorable mention there in 1890. He produced more than fifty works until 1909. Ref. Benezit, dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and engravers, Gründ.