Sculptor - Jules Moigniez
Title - Quail Pair
Sand Cast Bronze
Atelier Jules Moigniez
Circa 1860
7 1/2" height by 9 1/4" length
(19 cm by 23.5 cm)
Jules Moigniez was a master at portraying birds and this is one of his most famous and best models. It shows a pair of Quail foraging and eating grain. The birds are well modeled with good detail, and the composition is well done with one Quail standing up eating and the other one reaching for a grain of wheat.
Game birds like these Quail were popular subjects in art in the 19th century and a bronze like this would still have wide appeal today. This bronze has a warm golden brown patina and is a fine cast done by Moigniez's own foundry run by his father in the mid 1860s
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