PIERRE JULES MENE (FRENCH, 1810-1879): A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF AN ARAB FALCONER 'FAUCONNIER ARABE À CHEVAL'in the Orientalist style, the Arab man on horseback and holding the falcon on his right hand, on a naturalistic oval base signed 'P.J. MENE', brown patination with light brown high points, 77cm high x 74cm wideAnother example of this model at the same size was sold at Sotheby's New York, 18 April 2008, lot 123, $40,000. Mene exhibited the original wax model at the Salon of 1873 where it was entitled 'Chasse au faucon', before producing the bronze version. Barbedienne also cast versions of this model and a silvered bronze version was exhibited after the sculptor's death at the 1900 Exposition centennale de l'art français (#1735).