"Le hâlage", bronze with green patina, signed with the artist's name "Ouline" and the publisher "Patrouilleau éditeur". Base in sea green marble. Height 38 cm, width 67 cm. Alexandre Ouline is a well-known sculptor who worked in France between 1918 and 1940. He was featured in Animals in bronze by Christopher Payne, in Dictionnaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs Et Graveurs by E.
Benezit, published by Gründ and in Jean Charles Hachet's book Dictionnaire illustré des sculpteurs animaliers & fondeurs de l'Antiquité à nos jours published by Argus Valentines.