Arabian Soldier

Artist: Franz Xavier Bergman

Origin: Austrian

h: 8.25 in. x w: 3.5 in. x 3.5 in.

Year: circa 1900

Description

An Austrian Art Nouveau polychromed bronze Orientalist sculpture "Arabian Soldier" by, Franz Bergman of an Arabian solider leaning on his rifler a top a stone base.  The sculpture is signed with the Bergman mark displaying the letter B within a cartouche and is further numbered.
 

References: 
A similar model is photographed in "Antique Vienna Bronzes" by, Joseph Zwobel; Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ©2008 pg.150