Bronze Signed Pierre Lenordez (1815-1892)

Bronze group signed Pierre Lenordez (1815-1892) representing Le Piqueur accompanied by his dogs and his horse. His knowledge of the horse encouraged him to write a work on hippology published in 1886, "The Horse, its conformation and its breeding". Back in Normandy, Pierre Lenordez taught sculpture for about ten years at the Municipal School of Fine Arts in Caen, training many students, the most famous of whom was Arthur Le Duc, who in turn revealed himself like a great equestrian sculptor. He acquired a certain celebrity by producing sculptures, great winners of horse races, such as "Monarque" (Musée de Normandie in Caen) or "Gladiateur" (Château-Musée de Saumur), or scenes with the horse as the main subject. . He began to exhibit at the "Salon" in 1855 with a waxwork of "Baron", a horse from the Imperial Stud in the Bois de Boulogne. He exhibited there four more times until 1877.