{"product_id":"antique-bronze-fallow-deer-sculpture-40186","title":"Antique Bronze Fallow Deer Sculpture, Silvered Figure on Gilt Bronze Base — French Animalier School, Late 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe animalier school that formed around Antoine-Louis Barye in Paris in the 1830s changed what bronze animals could be. Before Barye, animal sculpture was decorative — graceful, symmetrical, unthreatening. The animaliers went to the Jardin des Plantes with sketchbooks and came back with something different: animals caught in the specific truth of their own movement, on naturalistic terrain bases that placed them in the world rather than on a plinth. The fallow deer — alert, mid-stride, head raised — was a recurring subject, the animal's particular combination of lightness and wariness making it one of the more demanding tests of a sculptor's observation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure is French, late nineteenth century, in the animalier tradition, cast in silvered bronze on a gilt bronze naturalistic base. The deer is modelled mid-stride, one foreleg raised, the head turned slightly upward with the ears fanned forward — the posture of an animal that has caught a sound it cannot yet place. The body is worked in broad, confident planes, the musculature reading clearly through the flanks and shoulders without being overstated; the antlers, still in velvet, are cast with the soft, slightly flattened form of early growth rather than the hard tines of the mature rack. Note how the terrain base — rocks, ground cover, the stub of a branch — is modelled with the same attention as the figure itself, the detail that separates an animalier cast made for a serious audience from one made for a mantelpiece market. The two-tone finish — silvered figure against gilt base — was a deliberate choice by the foundry, the contrast giving the small piece a visual presence beyond its size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt arrives professionally packed and fully insured. All duties and import charges are our responsibility — you pay nothing beyond the listed price. Returns are accepted within 30 days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDETAILS:\u003cbr\u003e\nSize: Height 13 cm (5.1 in) · Length 14.7 cm (5.8 in) · Base 14.7 × 6 cm (5.8 × 2.4 in) — roughly the size of a large book standing upright\u003cbr\u003e\nMaterial: silvered bronze figure; gilt bronze naturalistic terrain base\u003cbr\u003e\nStyle\/Period: French animalier school, late 19th century\u003cbr\u003e\nWeight: 878 g (1.9 lb)\u003cbr\u003e\nShipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide — all import duties paid by us, nothing to settle on delivery\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: very good; silvering sound with age-consistent variation; gilt base bright and stable; no chips or repairs\u003cbr\u003e\nReturns: accepted within 30 days\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Jaspers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59364045324633,"sku":"LM-E-220","price":1011.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1063\/5388\/5529\/files\/il_fullxfull.8547352927_cwbm.jpg?v=1789068553","url":"https:\/\/maisonjaspers.com\/products\/antique-bronze-fallow-deer-sculpture-40186","provider":"Maison Jaspers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}