Mene Pierre

Pierre Jules Mêne, (1810 -1879), was a French Sculptor and animalière. He is considered the pioneer of animal sculpture in the nineteenth-century. Mêne produced a number of animal sculptures, mainly of domestic animals including horses, cows and bulls, sheep and goats which were in vogue during the Second Empire.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jules_M%C3%AAne