Sitting Bloodhounds - Bronze By Emmanuel Frémiet (1824 - 1910)

Emmanuel Frémiet (1824 - 1910)
Seated Bloodhounds
Bronze with brown patina
H.: 24.7 cm; W.: 23.5 cm; D. (base): 19 cm
Signed "FREMIET", on the base
Inscription under the base: "N° 544 Hs"
Old cast bronze

The Bloodhounds are reproduced in the exhibition catalog "Emmanuel Frémiet, the hand and the multiple” (p. 80, cat. 27). This group is part of a series of bronzes representing dogs, which were produced between 1860 and 1880.

Literature

- C. Chevillot, Emmanuel Frémiet, la main et le multiple, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux Arts de Dijon, 5 November 1988 to 16 January 1989, Musée de Grenoble, 23 February 1989 to 30 April 1989, p. 80, cat. 27 (repr.).
- J.-C. Hachet, Dictionnaire illustré des sculpteurs animaliers & fondeurs de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Paris, Argusvalentines, volume 2, 2005, p. 721 (repr.).
- P. Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle: Dictionnaire des sculpteurs, Paris: Les éditions de l'amateur, 1996, p. 335 (repr.).