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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.
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