Animal Bronze With A Golden Patina Representing A Chick And A Fly On The Ground Signed Arson

- Animal bronze with a golden patina representing a chick watching a fly on the ground.- Base in green marble with white and black veins.- Signed intaglio on the terrace Arson.- Arson Alphonse Alexandre is a French animal sculptor. He was born in Paris on January 11, 1822, son of Jean-Alphonse Arson and Marie-Euphrasie Nicolle, student of Joseph-Marcellin Combette, he exhibited at the Salon of French artists in Paris from 1859 until 1880.- The works of Arson Alphonse Alexandre exhibited at the Salon representing sometimes humorous genre scenes, but especially animals and more particularly wild or domestic birds.- There is no more mention of him at the Salon from 1880, when he lived in the Belleville district of Paris at 2 rue de Palestine.- He died in the retirement home of Villecresnes (Seine et Oise) on December 26, 1895 at the age of 73. - 19th century period around 1859-1880.