French Pointer, 1863

  • Pierre-Jules Mêne, French, 1810-1879

Wax over wire armature on wax-covered wooden base

  • Overall: 7 7/16 × 12 1/8 × 5 3/8 inches (18.9 × 30.8 × 13.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Edsel B. Ford II Fund, Mr. Wendell W. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Booth II, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Day, Mr. Robert B. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Hudson, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur H. Mack, Mr. and Mrs. Dean E. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. W. Warren Shelden, and Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Smith

1996.1

On View

  • Era of Revolution, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Signed and dated, on base: P. J. Mene 1863

private collection (near Senlis, France)

purchased by (David Yates, New York, New York, USA)

1996-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lami, S. Dictionaire des Sculpteurs de l'Ecole Française vol. 3, Paris 1919, p. 429.

Pierre-Jules Mêne, French Pointer, 1863, wax over wire armature on wax-covered wooden base. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Edsel B. Ford II Fund, Mr. Wendell W. Anderson, et al., 1996.1.