Sculpture - Group Of Bassets , Ravageot And Ravageode , Emmanuel Fremiet (1824 -1910) - Bronze

Bronze group with brown patina , representing the famous basset hounds of Napoleon III "Ravageot and Ravageode", exhibited at the Salon of 1853 , by the sculptor Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910) .
Version with the links on the necks of the dogs .
Signature of the sculptor "E. FREMIET" in hollow , on the richly chiseled naturalist terrace , where a snail appears .
Sculpture of old edition , period second part of the 19th century .
Perfect state of conservation and patina .

Dimensions : 15 cm x 16 cm x 13.5 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 .