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A LARGE FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF AN ARAB HUNTER ENTITLED 'KABYLE AU RETOUR DE LA CHASSE'
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A LARGE FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF AN ARAB HUNTER ENTITLED 'KABYLE AU RETOUR DE LA CHASSE'

CAST FROM THE MODEL BY ARTHUR WAAGEN, FIRST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY

Closed22 September 2011

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A LARGE FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF AN ARAB HUNTER ENTITLED 'KABYLE AU RETOUR DE LA CHASSE'
CAST FROM THE MODEL BY ARTHUR WAAGEN, FIRST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY
Signed and dated 'Waagen Scul 1869', on a gilt-metal-mounted ebonised pedestal
The bronze: 46½ in. (118 cm.) high;
The pedestal: 32¼ in. (82 cm.) high; 48 in. (122 cm.) wide; 24½ in. (62 cm.) deep (2)

Specialist note

Born in East Prussia (now Lithuania), Arthur Waagen (d. 1898) pursued his career as a sculptor in Paris where he set up his studio at 40, Cours-de-Vincennes. He was renowned for his fine and realistic modelling, and produced a series of groups with a North African flavour, exhibiting at the Salon from 1869 to 1887. The present group of a Berber tribesman, also known as Chasseur arabe or Cavalier aux chiens, was conceived circa 1870. A fine example of the Orientalist genre, it is the artist's most prominent and successful model. Another cast is in the Dahesh Museum, New York.