Pair of candelabra «carnations» Auguste Nicolas Cain (1821-1894)

Pair of candelabra with five lights bronze patina bronze-medal and signed A. Cain then nineteenth century.
Auguste Nicolas Cain (10 Novembre1821 Paris, Paris 6 August 1894) was a French sculptor, specialized in animal sculpture in the wake of Antoine Louis Barye. After working in the family butcher Augustus Cain entered the studio of alexander Guionnet then became a pupil of Francois Rude. As Louis Antoine Barye he studied animal anatomy drawing in the Jardin des Plantes. In the 1840s he proposed models for goldsmiths Fannière Brothers, Rudolf Christof and House. In 1852 Augustus Cain married the daughter of the sculptor Pierre Jules Conducts he will suffer very much influence. He begins to die at the Salon in 1846 with a first work group is a wax «Warblers defending their nest against a log, now extinct, but was cast in bronze for the fair in 1855. During the 1840s and 1850s, in addition to carving small animal figures, Cain also produced utilitarian objects illustrated with animal motifs, such as match boxes, goblets or candlesticks. Augustus Cain himself its substantive work and that of his stepfather. His designs, to smaller, frequently show birds, representing animals often face the cruel laws of Nature, and we find that interest in some of his large sculptures. In the 1860s, recognized animal sculptor, Auguste Cain began to receive official orders. Among them, monumental sculptures that still have their place in the great gardens in Paris. There are sculptures of the artist in many museums, like the Chateau de Fontainebleau, Musée d'Orsay, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, Riom, Strasbourg Versailles (Real tennis).