Guy Hain is a French art forger who produced number of fake bronze sculptures.
In his job he met a number of veterinarians who had antique bronze sculptures of animals and developed an interest in them.
On 27 January 2006 a public auction organized by DNID (Direction Nationale d'Interventions Domaniales) was held in Dijon, France, with 73 bronzes in the exhibition.
"Angélique et Roger montés sur l'hippogriffe", "after" Antoine Barye, unmounted, sandcast bronze sculpture without inscription was adjudged €54,000.
[2] When Hain was released, he continued the practice: he had the bronzes produced in stages, one foundry doing the casting, one the chasing and one the patination.
Evidence collected by the Dijon police department included some 1,100 copies of the works of 98 different French sculptors.
Art expert Gilles Perrault calculated that Hain had produced over 6,000 copies beyond those the police had found and confiscated.