"Gilded Bronze Sculpture "mouse With A Fly" T. Hingre"
Louis-Théophile HINGRE (1832-1911)Paris, circa 1880.
Proof in gilded bronze
Little mouse watching for a fly.
Signed in hollow T. HINGRE.
Oval base in morello cherry marble.
Height 8 cm x L 8.5 cm
Louis-Théophile Hingre is a sculptor modeler, medal engraver, born November 19, 1832 in Écouen (Val-d'Oise) where he died November 12, 1911. Famous animal sculptor, he was a student of Henri Louis Gervais and Adrien Possot. He exhibited successfully at the Salon des Artistes français in Paris from 1880 to 1910.
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