[1] Dubucand made his debut at the 1867 Salon with a wax model of a dead pheasant, a rather inauspicious start when considering the higher quality sculptures he would submit later in his career.

His better casts feature a warm, mid-brown patination,[1] sometimes coming in even lighter shades bordering on a very light yellow, being nearly the color of the bronze metal itself.

[3] Dubucand paid strict attention to the anatomical detail of his subjects,[2] often being so concise that he actually showed the veins in the legs of his deer and elk sculptures.

Many of his orientalist sculptures feature North African scenes portraying Arab tribesmen and nomads aboard horses and camels.

[4] Although he would live for another eleven years, Dubucand's final submission to the Salon was Cavalier et femme arabes à la fontaine in 1883.