Pair of urns with covers with hunting scenes

Pierre-Jules Mêne French

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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.

Pair of urns with covers with hunting scenes, Pierre-Jules Mêne (French, Paris 1810–1877 Paris), Bronze, French

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Left: 1994.531.2a, b; Right: 1994.531.1a, b

Pair of urns with covers with hunting scenes, Pierre-Jules Mêne (French, Paris 1810–1877 Paris), Bronze, French
Pair of urns with covers with hunting scenes, Pierre-Jules Mêne (French, Paris 1810–1877 Paris), Bronze, French

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