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EMMANUEL FRÉMIET (France,1824-1910). "Héron chassant une grenouille". Gilded bronze on marble base. Presents signature and inscription. Measurements: 8,5 x 16,5 x 4,5 cm. Emmanuel Frémiet was a French sculptor. He was the nephew and disciple of the sculptor François Rude. He is also linked to the realist school. In 1853, Fremiet, "the greatest animal sculptor of his time" exhibited bronze sculptures of Napoleon III at the Paris Salon. Between 1855 and 1859, he was responsible for a series of military statuettes for the emperor. He executed his equestrian statue of Napoleon I in 1868 and of Louis of Orleans in 1869, at the Château de Pierrefonds, and in 1874 the first equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, erected in the Place des Pyramides in Paris, which was later replaced by another complete version in 1889. During this period he also executed Bread and the Puppies, also acquired by the Musée du Luxembourg and now in the Musée d'Orsay.
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EMMANUEL FRÉMIET (France,1824-1910). "Héron chassant une grenouille". Gilded bronze on marble base. Presents signature and inscription. Measurements: 8,5 x 16,5 x 4,5 cm. Emmanuel Frémiet was a French sculptor. He was the nephew and disciple of the sculptor François Rude. He is also linked to the realist school. In 1853, Fremiet, "the greatest animal sculptor of his time" exhibited bronze sculptures of Napoleon III at the Paris Salon. Between 1855 and 1859, he was responsible for a series of military statuettes for the emperor. He executed his equestrian statue of Napoleon I in 1868 and of Louis of Orleans in 1869, at the Château de Pierrefonds, and in 1874 the first equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, erected in the Place des Pyramides in Paris, which was later replaced by another complete version in 1889. During this period he also executed Bread and the Puppies, also acquired by the Musée du Luxembourg and now in the Musée d'Orsay.
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