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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.168
People
After Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Ocelot Carrying Off a Heron
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Ocelot Emportant un Heron / A Panther Devouring a Crane
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228435

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with black over brown patina, thick and opaque
Technique
Lost-wax process
Dimensions
16 × 30.3 × 16 cm (6 5/16 × 11 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: top of base, proper left of ocelot's tail: BARYE
  • collector's mark: interior of base, red letter on white fabric: "H"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Henry Dexter Sharpe, Providence, RI, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1956. (Gift of Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Henry Dexter Sharpe Collection
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.168
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bronzes de Barye en vente dans ses magasins, auct. cat., Rue Saint-Anastase, 10 (Paris, France, n.d.), no. 59
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., 12, Rue Chaptal (Chaussé d'Antin) (Paris, France, n.d.), no. 59
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., Rue de Boulogne, no. 6, Chausée d'Antin (Paris, France, 1847 - 1848), no. 59
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, Statuaire, Exposition Universelle 1855 La Grande Médaille d'Honneur, exh. cat., Quai des Celestins, 10 (Paris, France, 1855), no. 82
  • Catalogue des bronzes de A.L. Barye, Statuaire, Exposition Universelle de 1865 La Grande Médaille d'Honneur, exh. cat., Quai des Celestins, 4 (Paris, France, 1865), no. 80
  • Catalogue des oeuvres de feu Barye. Bronzes, aquarelles-tableaux, cires terres cuites, marbres, plâtres, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, February 7 1876 - February 12 1876), no. 590
  • Arsène Alexandre, A. L. Barye, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, France, 1889), p. 66
  • Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), p. 22, no. 18, repr.
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 13, 101, 153, 375, 440
  • Catalogue of the Works of Antoine-Louis Barye exhibited at the American Art Galleries . . ., exh. cat., J. J. Little and Co. (New York, NY, 1889), nos. 52, 155, 292
  • Roger Ballu, L'Oeuvre de Barye, Maison Quantin (Paris, France, 1890), p. 89, p. 90, repr.
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye Tableaux modernes par Corot, J. Dupré, Gericault et Troyon. Eaux fortes de Rembrandt. Composant la collection de M. CH. B., auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, January 31, 1891), no. 12
  • Illustrated Handbook of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Art Objects, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1939), p. 118, no. 740
  • Gerard Hubert and Maurice Sérullaz, Barye: Sculptures, Peintures, Aquarelles des Collectons Publiques Françaises, exh. cat., Musée National du Louvre (Paris, France, 1956), no. 18
  • The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1965), no. 388
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 139, p. 484, text, pp. 359-360; Fogg cast no. 139c
  • Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye: the Bernard Black-Hugues Nadeau Collection, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, December 3, 1971), no. 58
  • Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), no. 85
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A86
  • Jeanne L. Wasserman and Arthur Beale, Sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1982), p. 86, no. V (Appendix A)
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 6, 112

Exhibition History

  • A Bronze Menagerie and Other Works by Antoine-Louis Barye from the Fogg Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/25/1981 - 12/27/1981

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