"Roaring Lioness Bronze Sculpture Signed Cartier"
Bronze sculpture with green patina resting on a block of rough marble representing a lioness on a rock uttering a roar.Signed Cartier on the base.
Length 56cm by 40cm high.
Thomas François Cartier was a French sculptor and a late practitioner of the animalier style, a mid-19th-century trend of naturalistic but romanticized portraits of animals in both painting and sculpture. Cartier specialized in maquette-sized pieces depicting hunting dogs and large cats that were often placed inside clocks and other decorative objects. He was born on 21 February 1879 in Marseilles and although little is written about him, he is known to have participated in the Paris Salons from 1904 onwards, for which he won a gold medal in 1927.
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