拍品 118
118
A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF A MARE AND FOAL ENTITLED 'JUMENT ARABE ET SON POULAIN', cast from a model by Pierre Jules Mêne, the mare with it's head lowered and turned back, looking at the playful foal rearing up on it's hind quarters, on an oval naturalistic base, cast with a tree stump and oak branches and signed P.J.MENE, late 19th Century

细节
A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF A MARE AND FOAL ENTITLED 'JUMENT ARABE ET SON POULAIN', cast from a model by Pierre Jules Mêne, the mare with it's head lowered and turned back, looking at the playful foal rearing up on it's hind quarters, on an oval naturalistic base, cast with a tree stump and oak branches and signed P.J.MENE, late 19th Century
19¾in. (50.1cm.) wide; 12in. (30.5cm.) high; 9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) deep
出版
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Christopher Payne, Animals in Bronze, Woodbridge, 1986, p.280-281 Jane Horswell, Les Animaliers, Woodbridge, 1971, p.167

拍品专文

The present group, exhibited at the Salon in 1850, is amongst the early group of horses by Mêne and is certainly one of his most popular. Listed as No.31 in Mêne's catalogue, the group was produced in two sizes of which the present model is the larger.

A similar example sold Sotheby's, London, 21st June 1991, lot 30.