Ferdinand Pautrot

A signature from Ferdinand Pautrot

Ferdinand Pautrot (* 1832 in Poitiers ; † 1874 ) was a French animal sculptor .

Life

Between 1861 and 1870, Pautrot showed individual animal sculptures and groups of animals in mostly dynamic scenes at the Salon de Paris , which were made of different materials such as plaster of paris or bronze. He exhibited some of his designs again in the following years, but made of different materials or in different sizes.

Works (selection)

Works by Pautrot have titles such as:

• Pheasant hunted by two dogs , 1864
• Dog and Rabbit at the Rabbit Hole , 1865
• Dog , 1865
• Partridges and weasels , 1866
• Setter and Fox , 1866
• Snipe and Thrushes , 1867
• Horse and Deer , 1868
• Silver Pheasant and Teal , 1869
• Cat with Cub , 1870
• Chinese pheasant , 1870
• Wading bird with frog , bronze
• Fox , bronze
• Partridge with chicks , bronze
• End of the hunt , bronze
• Seated setter , bronze
• Sitting pointing dog , bronze
• Hummingbird , bronze

Pautrot's stag is in the collection of Harvard Art Museums , his rooster with lizard in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , his group of pheasants in the grain with rooster, chicken and three chicks in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology , his wren and nectar bird in the Georgia Museum of Kind of University of Georgia .

literature

• Pautrot, Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932.
• Pautrot, Ferdinand (1832–1874), sculptor. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 1999.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Pautrot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Datasheet Ferdinand Pautrot. In: Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
• Ferdinand Pautrot (French, 1832-1874). In: artnet , with pictures of Pautrot's work.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ferdinand Pautrot, sculptor 1832-1874. In: bronzesculpture.co.uk
2. ↑ Cerf. In: French Sculpture Census
3. ^ Coq au lézard. In: French Sculpture Census
4. ↑ Groupe de faisans avec des céréales, coq, poule et trois poussins. In: French Sculpture Census
5. ↑ Roitelet. In: French Sculpture Census
6. ↑ Souimanga. In: French Sculpture Census