Sculpture - Shackled Elephant Calf, Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) - Bronze

Bronze proof with brown patina , representing a shackled elephant calf , by the sculptor Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910) .
Old edition sculpture , signed "E.FREMIET" on the naturalist terrace .
Old bronze , period second half of the 19th century .
Very good state of conservation and patina .

Dimensions : 16 x 14 x 4 cm

Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910)

Emmanuel Fremiet is a French animal sculptor , born on December 6 , 1824 in Montrouge . 

Main representative of rationalist realism and even French naturalism of the second half of the 19th century .
He entered the studio of his uncle François Rude , after having attended evening classes . 
The fashionable theme of the "Confrontation between Man and Beast" inspired Emmanuel Fremiet and other artists . 
He was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1892. 
Emmanuel Fremiet succeeded Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875) as professor of animal drawing at the Museum of Natural History in Paris . 
He became the official sculptor of the third Republic . 

Emmanuel Fremiet died in Paris on September 10 , 1910 .