Rooster In Bronze Signed Auguste Cain

Rooster in 19th century bronze signed Auguste Nicolas Caîn, born November 10, 1821 in Paris, the city where he died on August 6, 1894, is a French animal sculptor. Auguste Cain joined forces with the sculptor Pierre-Jules Mène, whose daughter he married in 1852. He began to exhibit at the Salon in 1846. From the 1860s, recognized as an animal sculptor, Auguste Cain began to receive official commissions. Among them, monumental sculptures still in place in the great Parisian gardens. Auguste Cain's best-known works represent large carnivores with their prey, sometimes in combat, but he also modeled pets, bovids, or large game, characterizing them, such as hotel lions. city of Oran and the tigers of Poitiers. His works are realistic with great attention to detail.