Fernand PAILLET (1850-1918). Arab rider scanning the horizon. Bronze with brown patina, signed on the terrace (two small chips to the mane and to the end of the rifle, tiny scratches). It stands on an oblong black marble base. Dim. with base: Height : 37 cm - Width : 25 cm - Depth : 14 cm Note : An ivory painter, miniaturist and watercolorist, Fernand Paillet trained with the sculptor Carrier-Belleuse before settling and working in Paris. Between 1879 and 1888, he worked with the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres and exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1873 to 1898.