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Pipo by P. Mahler, first prize Sloughi winner at a dog show in Paris, 1886. Owned by M. A.
Dehesdin, Coulommiers, France. Published in L’Acclimatation, 1886.
This drawing is similar in outline to that of The young Mahler grew up there and
a red brindle Sloughi, Debba, by the same developed an insatiable love of nature and
artist and used in the famous hunting animals, and his keen sense of observation
books of the Manufacture Française that enabled him to draw, sculpt, engrave,
d’Armes et Cycles de St. Étienne. This red and paint animals and plants with such
brindle Sloughi was the prototype for the excellence later in his life. Mahler was
breed from the 1880's to 1930's in France. It already drawing animals as a child.
was replaced in 1950 by F. Castellan’s black
masked lop eared Sloughi in the same When he arrived in Paris in 1882, he was
books. Pipo’s drawing was used also for welcomed by Mr. Bellecroix, at the magazine
tobacco cards, cigar bands and postcards. “La Chasse Illustrée” (the Illustrated Hunt),
one of the major magazines that Mahler
Paul Mahler was born in Strasbourg in 1864. would illustrate. He often visited the Jardin
After Strasbourg was annexed by the des Plantes, the historical heart of the
Germans in 1871, he left with his father to French National Museum of Natural History,
go live in Verdun sur Meuse, France. whose animals he knew well.