Animalier

An animalier (, ) is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, 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, primarily in 19th-century France and to a lesser extent elsewhere in continental Europe.

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, derisively, by critics in 1831, and of Émile-Coriolan Guillemin. By the mid-century, a taste for animal subjects was very widespread among all sections of the middle classes.

Prominent animaliers

Painters

Richard Ansdell

Nicasius Bernaerts

Jean-Baptiste Berré

Pieter Boel

Rosa Bonheur

Jacques Raymond Brascassat

Pieter Casteels III

David de Coninck

Alexandre-François Desportes

Jan Fyt

Jacob van der Kerckhoven

Carstian Luyckx

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Melchior d'Hondecoeter

Charles Jacque

Paul Jouve

Edwin Landseer

Frans Snyders

George Stubbs

Julia Wernicke

Ernst Zehle

Sculptors

Silvio Apponyi

Carl Akeley

Alphonse-Alexandre Arson

Alfred Barye

Antoine-Louis Barye

André-Vincent Becquerel

Jean-Baptiste Berré

Joseph Edgar Boehm

Antoine Bofill

Isidore Bonheur

Rosa Bonheur

Solon Borglum

Antoine-Félix Bouré

Rembrandt Bugatti

Auguste Cain

Victor Chemin

Paul Comolèra

Joseph Csaky

Paul-Édouard Delabrièrre

Alfred Dubucand

Ivan Efimov

Anton Dominik Fernkorn

Christopher Fratin

Emmanuel Frémiet

Georges Gardet

August Gaul

Raymond Gayrard

Thomas Gechter

Robert Glassby

Willis Good

Émile-Coriolan Guillemin

Anna Hyatt Huntington

Herbert Haseltine

Gaston d'Illiers

Henri Alfred Jacquemart

Bohumil Kafka

Edward Kemeys

Albert Laessle

Gertrude Lathrop

Prosper Lecourtier

Pierre Lenordez

Les Lalanne

Edouard Martinet

Clovis Edmond Masson

Pierre-Jules Mêne

Léon Mignon

Jules Moigniez

Auguste Ottin

Charles Paillet

Daniel Parker

Ferdinand Pautrot

Jules Pautrot

François Pompon

Edward Clark Potter

Alexander Phimister Proctor

Louis Riche

Christopher Ross

Frederick Roth

Pierre Louis Rouillard

Edouard-Marcel Sandoz

Auguste Trémont

Paul Troubetzkoy

Pierre-Nicolas Tourgueneff

Charles Valton

Vasily Vatagin

Katharine Lane Weems

Ernst Zehle

References

External links

Animalier

Antiques

19th century in art