Collection Rochas, Le bestiaire rêvé

French, after Grégoire Giraud (1783 - 1836), Moulding workshop of the Louvre museum

Estimate

4,000 - 5,000 EUR

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Description

French, Moulding workshop of the Louvre museum, after Grégoire Giraud (1783 - 1836)

A dog (or Recubent dog)

Plaster, patinated to imitate bronze

With the signature GIRAUD. F behind the right front leg, and with the Moulding workshop of the Louvre museum stamp visible inside

The plinth patinated to imitate bronze and porphyry, and adorned with bas-reliefs symbolising the qualities of the dog: Loyalty, Courage, Vigilance and Agility

55 by 80 by 50 cm., 21⅝ by 31½ by 19¾in.

This plaster is after a marble of Grégoire Giraud, exhibited in the Salon of 1827 (no 1572) and since in the Louvre (inv. CC 192).

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