Lot 27: TWO BRONZE FIGURES OF A STAG AND A HOUND PROBABLY FRENCH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

facing towards each other, both on original ebony bases 9 3/4 in. and 8 in. high (25 cm. and 20.3 cm.) (2) Comparative LITERATURE Exhibition catalogue, Masterpieces from the Louvre, Queensland Art Gallery, 1988, p. 48, pl. 20. Ursel Berger and Volker Krahn, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Bronzen und der Barock, Brunswick, 1994, p. 309, fig. 250 Compare with the bronze stag sold in these rooms on 8th December 1983 from the Paul Wallraf Collection, lot 227, there attributed to the French sculptor Barthelemy Prieur (1536-1611). Note also the bronze figures of seated hounds on the Fountain of Diana of 1602 at Fontainbleau, ascribed to Prieur and Pierre Biard.