Animalier
An animalier is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of animals. "Animal painter" is the more general term for earlier artists. Although the work may be in any genre or format, the term is most often applied to sculptors and painters.
Animalier as a collective plural noun, or animalier bronzes, is also a term in antiques for small-scale sculptures of animals, of which large numbers were produced, often mass-produced, primarily in 19th century France and to a lesser extent elsewhere in continental Europe.
Although many earlier examples can be found, animalier sculpture became more popular, and reputable, in early 19th century Paris with the works of Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875) for whom the term was coined, derisively, by critics in 1831,[1][2] and of Émile-Coriolan Guillemin. By the mid-century, a taste for animal subjects was very widespread among all sections of the middle-classes.
In French, a "parc animalier" is a zoo.
Prominent animaliers
Painters
- Richard Ansdell
- Rosa Bonheur
- Jacques Raymond Brascassat
- Alexandre-François Desportes
- Melchior d'Hondecoeter
- Charles Jacque
- Paul Jouve
- Edwin Landseer
Sculptors
- Alphonse-Alexandre Arson
- Émile-Coriolan Guillemin
- Alfred Barye
- Antoine-Louis Barye
- André-Vincent Becquerel
- Joseph Edgar Boehm
- Antoine Bofill
- Isidore Bonheur
- Rosa Bonheur
- Solon Borglum
- Antoine-Félix Bouré
- Auguste Cain
- Victor Chemin
- Paul Comolèra
- Joseph Csaky
- Paul-Édouard Delabrièrre
- Alfred Dubucand
- Anton Dominik Fernkorn
- Christopher Fratin
- Emmanuel Frémiet
- Georges Gardet
- Raymond Gayrard
- Thomas Gechter
- Robert Glassby
- Willis Good
- Anna Hyatt Huntington
- Herbert Haseltine
- Gaston d'Illiers
- Henri Alfred Jacquemart
- Bohumil Kafka
- Gertrude Lathrop
- Pierre Lecourtier
- Pierre Lenordez
- Edouard Martinet
- Clovis Edmond Masson
- Pierre-Jules Mêne
- Léon Mignon
- Jules Moigniez
- Auguste Ottin
- Charles Paillet
- Ferdinand Pautrot
- Jules Pautrot
- François Pompon
- Edward Clark Potter
- Alexander Phimister Proctor
- Louis Riche
- Frederick Roth
- Pierre Louis Rouillard
- Edouard-Marcel Sandoz
- Auguste Trémont
- Paul Troubetzkoy
- Pierre Tourgueneff
- Charles Valton
- Katharine Lane Weems
References
- ↑ ""Animalier sculpture." ''The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art''. Oxford University Press, Inc., 2002. Answers.com 13 Apr. 2008". Answers.com. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
- ↑ "Dr. Arthur R. Metz and His Collection". Indiana.edu. Retrieved 2012-08-23.