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animalier

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animalier [ˈænɪməˌlɪə ˌænɪˈmælɪeɪ]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms)
a.  a painter or sculptor of animal subjects, esp a member of a group of early 19th-century French sculptors who specialized in realistic figures of animals, usually in bronze
b.  (as modifier) an animalier bronze
[from French]


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Travelling on to Paris in pursuit of this goal, Hall visited the studio of Emmanuel Fremiet, an artist then nearing the end of a highly successful career, who was recognised as France's leading sculptor of animalier and historicizing subjects.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Distorsion et alignement animalier (distortion and animal alignment),2008 Blass' moulded forms remain perceptible under the thermo-retractable plastic material that covers them.
3) Could there be anything more outre than a French artist (born 1795) who trained under Francois-Joseph Bosio and Antoine-Jean Gros only to become an animalier sculptor, and with desktop-size work to boot?
 
 
 
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