Antique Bronze Dog Bulldog Playing with a Mouse on Sheaves of Wheat
Henri Émile Adrien Trodoux (1815-1881)
6 1/8 x 3 7/5 inches
Signed on the terrace Henri Émile
 
Adrien Trodoux (French, 1815-1881) was an accomplished sculptor from the Animalier School of realistic representation of animals.
 
Born in Saint Petersburg to French Parents, Henri Émile Adrien Trodoux was noted for his thoughtful and realistic examples of animals. He was a pupil at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Petersbourg and was also taught by his father. He exhibited at the Salon between 1874 and 1876