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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.164
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Seated Lion
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Lion Assis
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
After 1847
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228486

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with green over brown patina
Technique
Lost-wax process
Dimensions
34.9 x 29.8 x 16.4 cm (13 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 6 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: top of base, rear left of lion: BARYE

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
1956.164
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.), nos. 66, 99
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., 12, Rue Chaptal (Chaussé d'Antin) (Paris, France, n.d.), nos. 66, 99
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., Rue de Boulogne, no. 6, Chausée d'Antin (Paris, France, 1847 - 1848), no. 199
  • Gustave Planche, "Barye", Revue des Deux Mondes (1851), vol. XI, pp. 50-51
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, Statuaire, Exposition Universelle 1855 La Grande Médaille d'Honneur, exh. cat., Quai des Celestins, 10 (Paris, France, 1855), no. 40
  • 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. 44
  • Paul Mantz, "Artistes contemporains, M. Barye", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (February 1, 1867), vol. I, p. 119
  • 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), nos. 663, 664, 665, 666, 700
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye. Modèles, tableaux et dessins Composant la collection de M. Auguste Sichel, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, February 27, 1886), no. 2
  • J. J. Guillaume, "Exposition des Oeuvres de Barye a l'École des Beaux-Arts", Nouvelles Archives de l'Art Français (1889), 3rd series, vol. V, pp. 206, 222
  • Arsène Alexandre, A. L. Barye, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, France, 1889), p. 21, repr.
  • Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), nos. 57, 61, 62, repr.
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 89bis, 240, 251, 381, 571, 643
  • Charles Sprague Smith, Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye, A. Wessels Co. (New York, NY, 1902), pp. 214-215, p. 214 facing, repr.
  • E. W. Hopkins, Antoine-Louis Barye, Bates and Guild Co. (Boston, MA, 1904), pl. 1
  • Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), nos. 429, 583
  • Charles Saunier, Barye, F. Rieder & cie (Paris, France, 1925), repr. pl. 10
  • Illustrated Handbook of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Art Objects, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1939), p. 117, no. 723
  • Gerard Hubert, "Barye et la critique de son temps", Revue des Arts (1956), vol. VI, p. 229
  • Antoine-Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (San Antonio, TX, 1965), no. 11
  • The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1965), nos. 375-377
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 55, p. 421; text, pp. 320-321; FAM cast is no. 55h
  • James Mackay, The Animaliers: the Animal Sculptors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Ward Lock Ltd. (London, England, 1973), p. 31
  • William R. Johnston, "The Barye Collection", Apollo (1974), vol. C, p. 404
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A41; repr. p. 126
  • 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. 80, no. II (Appendix A)
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 120, 126

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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