Bronze Animal Sculptures

Wonderfully large "LOUIS XV VALET DE CHASSE" Bronze Sculpture by PJ Mene, Signed and dated in cast 1869. This is a large sculpture made of solid bronze, which weighs over 175 lbs....

This is an impressive pair of dogs in the timeless Art Deco style, sitting attentively and awaiting the command of their master and dating from the mid 20th Century. This high quali...

Gorgeous Antique Statues, Bronze, Race Horses, Patinated, Jules Moigniez (French 1835-1894), 1900's, 20th Century! This exquisite set of antique bronze statues depicts a thrilling ...

Early 20th century Art Déco french nickelled bronze owl-shaped car mascot by Édouard-Marcel Sandoz for Susse Frères By: Édouard-Marcel Sandoz, Susse Frères Material: bronze, nickel,...

This striking gilded bronze sculpture, after Arthur Comte DU PASSAGE (1838–1909), captures the powerful image of a proud rooster—France’s enduring national symbol—standing atop military elements and holding a flag. More than a decorative object, this piece serves as a bold allegory of resilience, victory, and national pride. The rooster, or le coq gaulois, has long represented the fighting spirit of France, particularly during the 19th century. Here, its defiant posture over weaponry and a banner evokes themes of triumph over adversity, honor in battle, and patriotic vigilance. Set atop a refined circular green marble base, the warm golden patina adds sophistication, making it a perfect acquisition for collectors of symbolic art, French historical motifs, or refined decorative bronzes. Ideal for classic interiors or as a conversation piece rich with cultural significance. Keywords: French bronze sculpture, Arthur Comte du Passage, antique rooster statue...

Classic early 1910s Vienna bronze figurine. This polychromed cold painted bronze is probably something you need if you’re a Vienna bronze collector. Found at an estate sale in Vienna...

French School Patinated Bronze Sculpture of a Recumbent Hunting Dog French School, 20th Century A beautifully cast 20th-century French School bronze sculpture of a resting hunting dog, exhibiting remarkable realism and expert artistry. This work is finely cast in bronze with a rich brown patina, emphasizing the lifelike musculature, gentle expression, and elegant posture of the dog. This striking sculpture measures 10 inches high, 23 inches wide, and 8.5 inches deep, making it a substantial yet graceful presence in any collection or display setting. The artist has captured the natural repose of a loyal hunting companion, with detailed attention to the anatomy, coat texture, and alert yet relaxed demeanor. A superb addition to any classical, sporting, or fine art collection, this bronze is ideal for dog lovers, collectors of French animalier sculpture...

Modernist parrot sculpture by Hattakitkosol Somchai circa 1970s Solid bronze parrot on perch with verdigris finish mounted to white marble base Signed and numbered 5.5 inch width 5 ...

This bronze sculpture in the taste of Rembrandt Bugatti is a expressive example of 20th-century animal art. This sculpture portrays a seated stork with elongated legs and a poised, c...

Beautiful Oriental Japanese Meiji period style bronze sculpture of a walking elephant with his trunk up. Well casted metal art, heavy, bronze elephant in a dark brown copper finish. Elephant figurine statue in a triumphant pose, will make an excellent display ornament. Created with the traditional technique of the lost-wax that allows a great precision and finesse in the details, this bronze sculpture charms is with its exquisite depiction of a trumpeting elephant. Heavy bronze presents striking detail and cool copper tones with a hint of natural bronze. Raising its trunk skywards, the elephant will grace any desk as a paperweight or display case. This is a delightful vintage elephant statue...

Classic early 1960s bronze miniature figurine, in the style of Walter Bosse. Nice addition to your room, in your ashtray or just for your collection of midcentury items. Found at an ...

"Taureau Debout" by Rosa Bonheur. An excellent late 19th Century French animalier bronze study of a standing bull with fine hand chased surface that accentuates the muscle definition of the subject, signed Rosa B. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Measures: Width: 32 cm Height: 18 cm Depth: 11cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Circa: 1870 Materials: Bronze Book reference: Animals in Bronze by Christopher Payne Page no. 174 DESCRIPTION Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) The most popular artist of nineteenth-century France, Rosa Bonheur was also one of the first renowned painters of animals and the first woman awarded the Grand Cross by the French Legion of Honor. A professional artist with a successful career, Bonheur lived in two consecutive committed relationships with women. Born on March 16, 1822 in Bordeaux, Marie Rosalie Bonheur was the oldest of the four children of Raimond Oscar Bonheur (1796-1849) and Sophie Marquis. Bonheur's father was an art teacher who came from a poor family, while her mother, a musician, had descended from a middle-class family and had been her husband's art student. Bonheur's father, who taught drawing and landscape painting, was an ardent member of the utopian Saint Simeon society. The group held idealistic beliefs about the reform of work, property, marriage, and the role of women in society. Most importantly, for the artist's future, the Saint Simeons questioned traditional gender norms and firmly believed in the equality of women. While teaching artistic techniques to his oldest daughter, Raimond Bonheur also encouraged her independence and taught her to consider art as a career. In 1828 Raimond Bonheur joined the Saint Simeons at their retreat outside Paris. Sophie and the children joined him in Paris the following year. Four years later, however, Raimond abandoned his family to live in isolation with his fellow Saint Simeons. Sophie Bonheur died in 1833 at the age of thirty-six. Rosa was only eleven years old when her mother died, but she was aware of the heavy price her mother paid for married life with a man who was more dedicated to his own ideals than to meeting his family's needs. Rosa also saw that her mother's marriage led to poverty and her death from exhaustion. After her mother's death, Bonheur was taken in by the Micas family who resided nearby. Mme Micas and Bonheur's mother had been friends. When Mme Bonheur died, the Micas family paid Raimond Bonheur's debts and cared for Rosa. Their daughther, Nathalie, who would later become an amateur inventor and unschooled veterinarian, and Rosa became enamored with each other. When Rosa Bonheur began her career as a professional artist, she had already been trained by her father who had allowed her to study in all male classes. Rosa also learned by sketching masterworks at the Louvre from the age of fourteen, and later, by studying with Léon Cogniet. From the very beginning, Bonheur's favorite subject was animals. She learned their anatomy completely by dissecting them in local slaughterhouses. She also visited the horse market two times a week. Study of animals by direct observation led to the formation of the realist style in which Bonheur worked. It was for such work that Bonheur obtained written permission from the French government to wear men's slacks. Her working attire also consisted of a loose smock and heavy boots that protected her feet from the dangerous environment in which she painted. The style of dress that the artist adopted for work and home may well have been influenced by her father's attire, which was based on St. Simeonian clothing experiments. Bonheur also cropped her hair, perhaps to facilitate her work. She did, however, always wear dresses for social occasions because she knew that appropriate dress would further her career. Bonheur earned a successful living as a painter of animals. She exhibited at the annual Paris Salon regularly from the age of nineteen in 1841 through 1853, when she was thirty-one. She won the salon's gold medal at the age of twenty-six in 1848 and was commissioned by the French government to paint Plowing on the Nivernais in 1849. In the same year Bonheur and her sister Juliette became directors of l'École gratuite de dessin pour les jeunes filles, a post their father had once held. Bonheur completed her most renowned work, The Horse Fair, in 1855. The successful representation of percherons (a breed native to Normandy) was purchased by Ernest Gambart, a London art dealer whose gallery specialized in work by French artists. He exhibited The Horse Fair in London where Bonheur visited with Nathalie. Queen Victoria requested a private viewing of the painting at Windsor Castle. It would later be purchased in 1887 by Cornelius Vanderbilt and donated to the new Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur's trip to England allowed her to meet Charles Eastlake, then President of the Royal Academy, John Ruskin, the English writer and critic, and Edwin Landseer, the British animalier. She also toured the English and Scottish countrysides and executed some paintings based on her observations of new breeds of animals found there. Gambart made engravings of Bonheur's work, including The Horse Fair, and sold them in England, Europe, and the United States. Bonheur became one of the most renowned painters of the time. Little girls, such as Anna Klumpke in the United States, even had dolls in her likeness, much as American girls played with Shirley Temple dolls...

Vienna cold painted bronze Partridge antique figure Offered is a Viennese cold-painted bronze figure of a partridge dating to the early 20th century. He shows an antique patina wi...

Brutalist Antelope Sculpture, Zoomorphic Figurine, Steel and Gold, 1960s Elegant and thin Antelope sculpture. Body made of hammered and welded steel, patinated in gold in some part...

Impressive Art Deco Bronze Sculpture of a Panther by Emile Louis Bracquemond, bronze with black patina, on a Belgian black marble base. Signed and with founders signature Etling Par...

Bronze plaque sculpture with a finely detailed relief depicting a lush natural scene, where birds, flowers, and fruits intertwine masterfully. Created in the late 19th and early 20th...

19th century Russian Ormolu "Dancing Bear" sculpture, finely cast figure of a bear holding a twig, standing on a roped revolving, iron pedestal. The simp...

This is a set of Art Deco bookends featuring Scottish Terriers. The Scottie is very detailed and the silvered bronze patina is a great. The base is a dark green marble that just makes those dogs "pop". Wonderful cast silvered Bronze scottie dog bookends...

Beautiful American Eagle in solid bronze, resting on a branch sitting on a solid stainless steel base gorgeous piece, unsigned with great quality.

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original Circa 1900 Austrian Vienna cold paint bronze Statue / Watch holder by the wonder that is Franz Bergman. Fully stamped to ...

Bronze sculpture of the big cat after Fernando Botero, 20th century. Bronze sculpture after Fernando Botero representing the big cat, 20th century. H: 15cm, W: 8cm, D: 8cm

A beautiful antique gilt bronze sculpture of a hunting fox with a duck in its mouth, mounted on a polished malachite slab European (likely German or Russian), Early 20th Century Me...

Lion animal bronze patina 19th century medallion signed Fratin on the terrace dimension 53 cm long 31 cm high 15 cm deep Additional information: Materi...

Graceful even when standing still the Bronze Bull Elk with Marble Base is a striking addition to any setting. Using traditional lost wax casting methods the Bull Elk statue...

The clock is signed by the Clockmaker Festeau Le Jeune. The case after a design of François Vion in form of a lion supporting a cylindrical case draped with ribbon tied laurel swags ...

Masterful Pair of Italian Horses in bronze 20th Century H: 260cm 190cm x 70cm real height, lost wax casting. Origin Venice, private collection. Perfect for the outside or even for ...

Pair of English Regency bronze whippets or greyhounds on verdi antico marble book form bases, after a model by Thomas Weeks. Each dog sculpture is beautifully cast with their individual personalities. 6 inches high 5 wide 5 deep including bases. These whippets are resonant of the early nineteenth-century work of Thomas Weeks (d. 1834) who established a 'Royal Mechanical Museum' or emporium in Tichbourne Street in about 1797. The attractions included various animated animals and insects, ingenious clocks, musical instruments, elaborate temples, toys and other such peculiarities that appealed to the London public in the late 18th and early 19th Century (C. Gilbert, 'Some Weeks cabinets reconsidered', The Connoisseur, May 1971...

Classic early 1950s Austrian Bosse cat Figurine Collectible. Nice addition to your room or just for your collection of Austrian bronze items. Found at an estate sale in Vienna, Austr...

Classic early 1950s Austrian Bosse cat Figurine Collectible. Nice addition to your room or just for your collection of Austrian bronze items. Found at an estate sale in Vienna, Austr...

Classic early 1960s bronze miniature figurine, in the style of Walter Bosse. Nice addition to your room, or just for your collection of midcentury items. Found at an estate sale in V...

Cast bronze with gold wash.

A beautiful pair of 19th century Meiji period Japanese Bronze fan tailed Partridges, on a shaped wooden base. Circa 1900 Japan H: 9 in / 23 cm ; Base: W: 13.77 in / 35 cm ; D: 8.6...

This Two Flamingos statue is a bronze sculpture in the style of Rembrandt Bugatti. It depicts two elegant flamingos with intertwined necks, capturing their grace and balance in a sty...

Art Deco Bronze Panther by Rochard, A striking French Art Deco bronze sculpture of a prowling panther by renowned artist Irénée Rochard (1906–1984), dating to the 1920s. Cast in br...

Small Antique Art Deco Doorbell, Silver-Plated Bronze, Rabbit, Signed by Edouard-Marcel Sandoz Beautiful Art Deco table doorbell, known as the "Lapin Bijou," designed by Edouard-Marc...

A bronze whippet or greyhound dog sculpture. A lovely little life-sized sculpture that is perfect for any canine lover. This piece is beautifully made, with tons of detail, and a rea...

Gabriella Crespi Pheasant, silvered bronze, glass, signed. Small scale realistic, elegant, and magical silvered bronze pheasant fitted with a hand-blown glass egg...

The Black Rhino is one of Africa’s most formidable creatures, yet also among its most vulnerable. This bronze bust, finished in a deep blue verdigris patina, captures the raw strength and weathered dignity of the rhino’s head, its horn thrust forward like a spear forged by evolution. I first sketched this piece in the field when all I could see was a rhino’s head emerging through the thicket—an unforgettable impression of power and presence. The rhino’s horn, once its ultimate defense, has tragically become the very reason for its decline. In this sculpture, that paradox is frozen in bronze: resilience and fragility bound together. Set on a sandstone base, the piece is both a tribute and a reminder—of nature’s grandeur and mankind’s responsibility to protect it. Black Rhino Bust, Bronze Rhino Sculpture...

A fine bronze casted sculpture of a Elephant with a calf, resting on a black Belgium marble base. The bronze has the original olive-brown patina. It is made in France, circa 1930-1940. Signed: Irénée ROCHARD. The sculpture has a beautiful patina and is in good condition. After casting the bronze is finely finished with fine chisels, for the fine details. This chiseling process was an enormously time-consuming job. Irénée Rochard was born in Villefranche sur Saône France in 1906, In a family of artists: his mother was a painter and his brother became The actor-singer Armand MESTRAL. When he chose the course of an artist’s life too, he soon turned to animal Sculpting in order to,as he used to say: pay tribute to animal. In 22 years, on leaving the Beaux-Arts School, he was the first prize-winner for A life-size panther...

Bronze sculpture depicting a moving horse, fixed on a rectangular bronze base. France circa 1890.

This magnificent pair of gilt and patinated bronze sculptures faithfully reproduces the iconic Marly Horses, originally sculpted in marble by Guillaume Coustou (1677–1746) for the Ch...

Reuben Nakian (American, 1897–1986) Title: Seal, 1930 Medium: bronze sculpture Movement: Modern Art Edition: Artist's Cast Dimensions: 7.5 inches deep x 14 inches wide x 17 inches hi...

Beautiful design and wonderful light creating, mineral stone fixture. This marvelous, early 20th century alabaster and bronze work of lighting art is another one of our recent and g...

Bronze Etruscan horse sculpture in the manner of boris lovet-borski was the form of figurative art produced by the Etruscan civilization in Northern Italy between the 9th and 2nd cen...

GEORGES GARDET French, 1863-1939 "Bison et Jaguar" (1892) Medium brown patinated sand-cast bronze cast circa 1920 Signed G. GARDET, cold-stamped 6963 Foundry cachet (undoubtedly S...

Italy, 19th century or earlier. We did find an example of this piece previously sold at auction that was said to be 16th or 17th century, however, we can not confirm that on our end. We are confident this is an old example and not a Maitland Smith reproduction. There is undesirable markings to under belly. This exquisite antique chiseled...

Art Deco cast bronze sculpture of a bird flying along the crest of a wave. Signed on the base at the rear of the casting: Alvan Kote.

A cast bronze statue with a panther and a bamboo monkey. It's a nice scene, the panther is surprised by the screaming bamboo monkey. Both animals have a beautiful expression. The scu...

Vienna cold painted bronze of a Cat antique figure. Offered is a Viennese cold-painted bronze figure of a Cat dating to the early 20th century. He shows...

Elegant cast bronze and quartz sculpture from the 1960's. Brutalist style, decorative object, in excellent original condition. A classic and beautiful piece that can complement any h...

Art Deco Bronze Elephant Sculpture Italy. Impressive bronze Art Deco sculpture of an elephant in dark green cast bronze on brown marble base. Elephant with raised trunk on marble bas...

The Elephant Begging bronze sculpture in the style of Rembrandt Bugatti is a remarkable example of early 20th-century animal art.The animal in a playful pose, capturing both movement...

a delightful bronze sculpture of a well-delineated sparrow perched upon a bamboo branch surrounded by cattails and reeds all emanating from a foliate ring; the whole resting on a wel...

A very finely cast late 19 century Grand Tour bronze replica of the renowned statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni on horseback set on a verde antico marble base after the life sized bronze statue by the Renaissance sculptor Andrea Del Verrocchio...

This late 19th-century bronze sculpture depicts a wild stag in mid-call, standing on a textured base that evokes natural elements. The piece showcases intricate detailing with except...

Jacques Adnet style neoclassical bronze horse head sconce, wall light, lamp with form fit original shade. In perfect working condition and takes 2 l...

Bronze dolphin sculpture. Bronze dolphin in a baroque Venetian sea serpent style mounted on black marble base; a very sculptural bookend. Un...

Lost wax casting. Base in marble. On the oval base rises the figure of the animal, located facing forward. This type of small sculptures in bronze were already highly appreciated in ...

This exquisite early 20th-century Italian Orientalist bronze sculpture, "Falconiere A Cavallo", by the renowned sculptor Ferdinando de Luca, masterfully captures the elegance and nob...

Bronze Bird’s Nest with Eggs by Scott Nelles, 1985 — A finely crafted bronze sculpture depicting a realistic bird’s nest cradling three smooth bronze eggs, each removable from the ne...