Lot 420: A BRONZE GROUP OF A HORSE AND RIDER

A BRONZE GROUP OF A HORSE AND RIDER
LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER ÉMILE FRÉDÉRIC SALMON (1840-1913)
The gentleman rider wearing a top hat and holding a crop, the naturalistic base with two hunting dogs, cast signature 'E.SALMON/LONDON 1865', on an ebonised base
The bronze -- 22½ in. (57 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) wide

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Salmon was the son of the painter Théodore Frédéric Salmon and the father of the poet and art critic André Salmon. He studied under Barye, Hédouin and Gaucherel and made his début at the Salon in 1859. As a sculptor he produced bronzes of animals, but later abandoned this for etching.