Le Petit Malin, The Little Trickster, depicts a mischievous putto, pointing his finger at the viewer with one hand, while hiding the other hand, which holds his bow, behind his back; a quiver full of arrows lies on the ground.
The sculptor, Benoît, also known as Bénédict Rougelet (Tournus, 1834-Ivry-sur-Seine, 1894), studied sculpture in Tournus, then in Lyon and Paris, where he was a student of Francisque Duret at the École des Beaux-Arts.
17.5” tall by 10” diameter