Pierre-Jules MENE (1810-1879), after "The Arab Falconer on Horseback Shaded brown patina bronze proof, signed on the terrace, numbered "506" on the back H_75 cm - W_71 cm - D_26 cm (part of the reindeer missing, traces of oxidation on the right bicep) Bibliography: Poletti and Richarme. Pierre-Jules Mène, catalog raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté. UDB, 2007. A similar model is described and reproduced under N° F 10, page 38. Pierre Kjellberg. Les bronzes du XIXeme siècle. Dictionnaire des sculptures, Editions de l'Amateur. A similar model is described and reproduced on page 477.

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