The Gilded Age

Literature

Sophie Eloy and François Michaud, Animaux. La Sculpture Animalière Dans les Collections du Musée International de la Chasse. 19ème et 20ème siècles, an exhibition catalogue, Musée Internaitonal de la Chasse, Gien, 1999, pp. 42-43, n. 10 (another model illustrated).

Christopher Payne, "Animals in Bronze," in Antique Collector's Club, Woodlbridge, 1986, p. 355, no. H221.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Pierre-Jules Mêne 1810-1879: Catalogue Raisonné, Univers du Bronze, Paris, 2007, p. 38, F. 10 (another model illustrated).

Note

The present sculpture differs from the other subjects Mêne captured and cast in the 1870s. When it was presented at the Salon of 1873, it met an immediate success. Many casts were produced in the 19th century, but few were made in the following century, making this piece rare.