" Auguste Nicolas Cain 1822-1894 France. "
Bronze composition "Ibis Hunting Frogs" by the famous 19th century French sculptor - Auguste Nicolas Cain (1822-1894). Auguste Nicolas Cain achieved great mastery and expressiveness in animal sculpture. His most important work is the monument to Duke Charles of Brunswick, erected in Geneva in 1879: a sumptuous structure crowned with a bronze equestrian statue of the Duke and decorated with colossal figures of two lions and two griffins in red marble. Other famous works by Augusta Nicolas Cain are the bronze compositions Lion and Lioness (1854) in Odessa, Tiger Trampling a Crocodile (1873) and Two Lions Attacking a Wild Boar (1882) in the Tuileries Gardens, Nubian Lion and its Prey (1870) in the Luxembourg Gardens, and others. 
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