Antique Emmanuel Frémiet French sculpture c 1850 Bronze Basset Hound Figurine For Sale

Emmanuel Frémiet (6 December 1824 – 10 September 1910) was a French sculptor. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris (and its \"sister\" statues in Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon) and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in SuezIn the 1850s, Frémiet produced various Napoleonic works. He first exhibited in the Paris Salon at the age of nineteen with a sculpture of an Algerian gazelle.[2] In 1853, Frémiet, \"the leading sculptor of animals in his day\" exhibited bronze sculptures of Emperor Napoleon III\'s basset hounds at the Paris Salon. Soon afterwards, from 1855 to 1859 Frémiet was engaged on a series of military statuettes for Napoleon III, none of which have survived.
approx 6\' long without baseapprox 5\"3/4 tall without base