Very Large Orientalist Bronze 97x90 Cm, Early 20th Century, Arthur Waagen 1833/1898

Period: early 20th century, Lost wax bronze, very beautiful patina, in excellent condition.
Signed: in the bronze base Barye F. (for Barye Fonderie)
Subject: return from hunting of the Kabyle
Dimensions: height: 97 cm, length: 90 cm, depth: 43 cm, - approximately 50 Kg

Foundryman, Barye Fonderie:
The famous sculptor opened his own foundry to publish his works in 1838.
Despite serious difficulties, between 1845 and 1857, it remained in operation.

Max Arthur Waagen 1833/ 1898:
Max Arthur Waagen is a German sculptor born in Memel (currently Klaipėda in Lithuania) in 1833 and died in Paris in 1898. There is little information about his life.
He was a student of the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch, who had founded a school in Prussia, whose most famous students were August Kiss and Friedrich Drake.
He left Germany to pursue a career in France. He settled in Paris, where he created numerous works bearing French titles. He specialized in animal and oriental sculptures.
Salon booklets show that he exhibited works there between 1861 and 1887. At the 1861 Salon, he presented a group entitled Supreme Struggle of the Mortally Wounded Lion. At the 1869 Salon, he presented a plaster group entitled Pheasants. At the 1870 Salon, there were two bronze statuettes: The Oracle of Flowers and The Return from the Fields. He shows a Portrait of MAP at the Salon of 1879, A Vandal at the Salon of 1887.
His most famous work is Kabyle Hunter Returning from the Hunt. His studio was located at 40, cours de Vincennes then at La Varenne Saint-Hilaire, 11, avenue Chevalier.
Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, dictionnaire des sculpteurs, les Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2005

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Bronze visible at our gallery in L'Isle sur la Sorgue (France), on weekends.
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