Game Bird Sculpture by Paul Edouard Delabrierre

Description

This original 19th-century bronze sculpture depicts a woodcock game bird. Signed by the artist, Paul Edouard Delabrierre

Size: 5" x … more This original 19th-century bronze sculpture depicts a woodcock game bird. Signed by the artist, Paul Edouard Delabrierre

Size: 5" x 5"

Biography:

Paul Edouard Delabrierre, Paris-born, was a member of the school of Animalier painters, active in the late 19th Century. He studied with was born in Paris, France on March 29th 1829. He was an important member of the Animalier school in late 19th century Paris, and the last two years of his career, introduced cast iron as a legitimate material for sculpture.

Delabrierre studied art under the painter Eugene Delestre but found his interest and skills were with making three-dimensional sculpture. He was greatly influenced by Antoine Louis Barye and "many of Delabrierre's 'combat models' show this violence of nature, which was very popular at that time. Many of the sculptures he executed often incorporated figures as well as animals. Delabrierre first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848 and continued until 1882. His first entry was Terrier, a wax model holding a Hare. The facade of the Louvre has one of his largest groups, L'Equitation, made in 1857. A complete list of the 70 works that Delabrierre submitted to the annual Salons can be found in the Dictionnaire de Sculpteurs de l'ecole Francaise by Stanaslas Lami. less