Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

France, Taureau, 1880, a cast bronze plaque by V. Peter, bull running left, head turned to viewer, 127 x 77mm (PBE –; BDM IV, 462; cf. DNW 44, 902 [recté 1880]). Extremely fine and nicely patinated (£90-120)

Plate XXVII. An early study of this animal by Peter; his two later works depicting bulls, executed c. 1906-8 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1909 and the ANS Exhibition of 1910, show the animal in different poses