PIERRE JULES MENE (FRENCH, 1810-1879): A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF AN ARAB FALCONER 'FAUCONNIER ARABE À CHEVAL'
in the Orientalist style, the Arab man on horseback and holding the falcon on his right hand, on a naturalistic oval base signed 'P.J. MENE', brown patination with light brown high points,
77cm high x 74cm wide

Another example of this model at the same size was sold at Sotheby's New York, 18 April 2008, lot 123, $40,000. Mene exhibited the original wax model at the Salon of 1873 where it wasentitled 'Chasse au faucon', before producing the bronze version. Barbedienne also cast versions of this model and a silvered bronze version was exhibited after the sculptor's death at the1900 Exposition centennale de l'art français (#1735).