Bronze Baboon Sculpture after Rembrandt Bugatti

This bronze baboon is a male hamadryas standing four-square on a low rectangular plinth, his tail lifted in a high, open arc. Across the shoulders the heavy cape falls in flat, overlapping plates, each scored with fine radiating lines; around the face it opens into a broad ruff beneath a heavy brow and a long, ridged muzzle.

Below the cape the modelling changes. Flanks, rump and limbs are smooth and polished, so the light gathers there and leaves the incised mantle in shadow. The hands rest flat on the plinth with long, spread fingers, and the plinth itself has a mottled, hand-worked surface and a bevelled edge.

Each new piece is made by lost-wax casting (cire perdue) and finished in a dark brown, almost black patina, with warm bronze showing on the raised edges of the cape. The sculpture is made in the manner of Rembrandt Bugatti (1884–1916), whom the Royal Zoological Society invited to Antwerp in 1907 to model the animals of its zoo.

The plinth is only 19 cm deep, so the 60 cm sculpture fits a narrow console behind a sofa, seen side-on from the room. In profile the piece is at its clearest: the stepped mantle over the forequarters against the bare, polished line of the back.

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