"A Recumbent Husky" | Emmanuel Fremiet, no. 38

EMMANUEL FREMIET
French, 1824-1910

Chien loulou couché

Nuanced medium-brown patina on sand-cast bronze | Signed in base "E. FREMIET" | a Charles More cast numbered 38

Item # 311GTS04P  A very early lifetime casting by Charles More numbered 38, the present example is silky and positively glows with a rich nuanced brown and caramel surface patina. The model captures the entirely relaxed spirit of the recumbant husky dog with its bushy tail bouncing and eyes alert while taking a rest on a naturalistic base. The base is signed with a raised signature captured directly from the mold with no evidence of cold-tooling "E. FREMIET". Cast circa 1860. Literary references: Bronzes of Les Animaliers, Jane Horswell, 1971, p. 187, present model illustrated The Animaliers, James Mackay, 1973, p. 43, present model illustrated as "Reclining Husky", also noted in Fremiet's catalogue on p. 145 as no. 7 Emmanuel Fremiet, 1824-1910: La main et le multiple, Catherine Chevillot, 1989, p. 74, catalogue no. S22, ill. cat. 10,
Measurements: 3" H x 6 1/8" W x 3" D Condition Report:
Very fine surface condition with trace wear to raised elements. Cleaned and carefully polished, sealed in wax.