Paul Edouard Delabrierre (1829-1910), Dog And Weasel, Bronze

Paul-Edouard Delabrierre was a French sculptor born in Paris on March 29, 1829, he died in the same city in February 1910.
An animal sculptor, he began his career as a painter but quickly turned to sculpture and exhibited for the first time at the Salon des artistes français in 1848 a wax representing a Terrier holding a hare.
He exhibited at the Salon des artistes français until 1898.
Greatly influenced by the most famous animal sculptor of his century, Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875), he specialized, like him, in animal bronzes, either in groups such as his Indian Panther Devouring a Heron, 1859 Salon (Amiens, Musée de Picardie) or presenting a single animal (lion, deer, pheasant, etc.), he nevertheless showed a clear predilection for hunting dogs that he liked to represent in numerous postures with or without their prey.

Here our charming, particularly expressive dog, depicted next to a weasel, presents perfectly chiseled muscles.
Beautiful brown patina. Signature in capital letters, on the terrace, at the back of the motif: "E.DELABRIERRE"