Pair of urns with covers with hunting scenes

Pierre-Jules Mêne

mid-19th century · Bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Mêne was a gifted animalier who realized considerable success with these oft-repeated a urns because of their superb rustic ornament, each having twisted branches of oak that serve as handles and frame the reliefs of hunting subjects. One urn has a hooded falcon for a finial; the other is topped by a heron. The picturesque effects are generically baroque; Mêne porobablv thought of them as being in the stylistic vein of the Louis XIII period.

Artist

Pierre-Jules Mêne

Date

mid-19th century

Medium

Bronze

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Dr. Wesley Halpert and Mrs. Carolyn Halpert, 1994