EMMANUEL FREMIET (FRENCH, 1824-1910), A BRONZE ANIMALIER FIGURE OF 'RENARD D'EGYPTE' (THE EGYPTIAN FOX)LATE 19TH CENTURYDepicted watchful, recumbent, signed to the base 'E FREMIET' 9cm high, 18.6cm wideThis would seem to be Fremiet's only depiction of a fox- and may have been the model he exhibited at The Salon in Paris in 1848. Literature: C. Chevillot, 'Emmanuel Fremiet: La main et le multiple', Dijon, 1988, ( of another cast p. 74).Pierre Kjellberg, 'Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century: Dictionary of Sculptors', p. 334 noting Renard as a model of 8 x 19cm