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He studied also at Les Beaux Arts School, in Mahler was prolific, with hundreds of
Jean-Léon Gérôme’s art studio, a famous illustrations of animals in journals, books,
French Orientalist known for the catalogue covers, and he made vases,
painstaking preciseness of his paintings. inkwells, paperweights, bronze plaques for
Mahler also studied Anatomy and with this dog shows, buttons for hunting jackets,
precious knowledge started illustrating for figurines, etc…always representing
La Chasse Illustrée, Le Chenil (the animals.
Doghouse) which published portraits of
various breeds of dogs and finally Mahler lived tuned to animals as many
l’Acclimatation/Journal des Éleveurs, shared his life at one time or another:
another journal specialized in breeding dogs, cats, a buzzard, rabbits, tortoises,
animals of all kinds. three Congo monkeys, an Austrian
wolf, pigeons, a rooster, a hen, tamed
Mahler was also an avid visitor of dog seagulls, living in harmony within an
shows and many a champion had the honor exuberant garden.
of being drawn and engraved for posterity
by him. These portraits were printed in the Submitted and presented by
albums of the Société Canine (Canine M.-Dominique Crapon de Caprona, USA.
Society), and the originals given to the
owners. They were also published in other
journals.
