Depicting a chimera set on a circular base of bronze and marble
Supporting a marble ovoid form cup with his jaw and one paw, mounted at front with bronze shield cartouche.
Neo-Renaissance Style
Circa 1860
The troubadour style is an emerging artistic movement under the French Restoration, which flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century, and tends to reinvent and appropriate by different arts, an idealized atmosphere of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.