Wednesday, July 11, 2007

From Dave Price #1


Rhino1, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Buckles:

Here we have pix of the two rhino statues in Paris that I asked about earlier.

Any information at all will be more than I have now.

Whitey

"Oddly enough, I happened across a documentary on the "Statue Of Liberty" on the History Channel last night, quite remarkable how the French craftsmen could pre-assemble sheets of metal in the proper proportion. I can see how an armored rhino would capture their fancy." Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 7/11/2007 01:22:00 PM

3 comments:

Dick Flint said...

This life-size rhinoceros is the work of Henri Alfred Jacquemart (1824-1896) and can be seen in the square of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Actually a bronze statue, it was fabricated in the factories of J. Voruz in Nantes in time for the Paris Exposition of 1878. It was one of four monumental bronze statues (a horse, a bull, an elephant and a rhinoceros) surrounding the fountain in front of the Palais du Trocadéro. The Palace was torn down in 1935 and the statue was moved to the Porte de Saint-Cloud until 1985 when it went to its present site along with the horse and elephant (the bull is in Nimes).
The second statue, “Rhinoceros attacked by tigers,” was done in plaster in 1882 by Auguste Caïn and cast in bronze in 1884 when it was installed in the Jardin des Tuileries where it still can be seen today.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

11 July, 2007 17:29
Anonymous said...

Thanks, Dick and Buckles, for your info.

12 July, 2007 09:25
Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds says - -

Dave. Thanks for posting this. The statue obviously depicts an Indian rhino. It is very lifelike save the “saddle” fold atop the nape of the neck - -at least the photo seems to show the saddle fold. That is a unique feature of the incredibly rare Javan rhino which is closely related to the Indian, though distinctive in certain features. The “rivet head” like protuberances (shown here) belong to the Indian and are not present in the Javan.

14 July, 2007 13:57

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