Animalier
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An animalier is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, their 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, in 19th century France and elsewhere.
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, decisively, by critics in 1831. 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
See also Category:Animal artists Painters:
Sculptors:
- Antoine-Louis Barye
- Auguste Cain
- Anton Dominik Fernkorn
- Christopher Fratin
- Emmanuel Frémiet
- Herbert Haseltine
- Gaston d'Illiers
- Henri Alfred Jacquemart
- Bohumil Kafka
- Pierre-Jules Mêne
- Léon Mignon
- Auguste Ottin
- François Pompon
- Edward Clark Potter
- Alexander Phimister Proctor
- Frederick Roth
- Pierre Louis Rouillard
- Isidore Bonheur
- Auguste Trémont
