ARTHUR WAAGEN (GERMAN, 1833-1898), BRONZE GROUP 'KABYLE AU RETOUR DE LA CHASSE (THE BERBER HUNTER)' LATE 19TH CENTURY With polychrome cold painted detailing to the dark brown patina, cast signature and with title plaque to base of sculpture, on a custom made wood stand the bronze 90cm high, the base 76cm wide, the stand 37cm high, 86cm wide This composition, with the Berber hunter returning from the hunt, his dogs below, is perhaps the defining work of Max Arthur Waagen's oeuvre. He exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1861 and 1887. 'Kabyle au retour de la chasse' was conceived in 1870 and also exhibited under the titles 'Chasseur arabe' and 'Cavalier aux chiens'. A cast of the model is in the Dahesh Museum, New York, whilst a cast with a variant fluted base is published by Payne (op. cit.). Unusually this example still retains the cold painted polychrome detailing to the hunter's cloak and hat. C. Payne, Animals in Bronze, Reference and Price Guide, Woodbridge, 1986, pp. 284-285; P. Kjellberg, Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century; Dictionary of Sculptors, Atglen, 1994, p. 647.