"Sculpture - Seated Basset Hound (ravageot) , Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910) - Bronze"
Bronze cast with brown patina , depicting the seated basset hound "Ravageot" , from the group "Ravageot and Ravageode", famous basset hounds of Napoleon III , exhibited at the Salon of 1853 , by the sculptor Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910) . The sculptor's signature "E. FREMIET" on the naturalistic base .
This is an early edition sculpture , dating from the second half of the 19th century .
It is in perfect condition , with a beautiful patina .
Dimensions : 15 cm x 15.5 cm x 10 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 .
Le Magazine de PROANTIC
TRÉSORS Magazine
Rivista Artiquariato