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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.169
People
After Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Panther of Tunis
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Panthère de Tunis / Panther of Tunis, Half-Reclining / Panther of Tunis Couchant
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1930-c. 1939
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228554

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brass with green paint
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
13.3 x 26.7 x 9.1 cm (5 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: side of base, front, proper left of panther: BARYE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Henry Dexter Sharpe (through Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe), Providence, RI, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1956.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Henry Dexter Sharpe Collection
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.169
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, Statuaire, Exposition Universelle 1855 La Grande Médaille d'Honneur, exh. cat., Quai des Celestins, 10 (Paris, France, 1855), no. 58
  • 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. 64
  • 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. 443, 706
  • 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. 29
  • Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), p. 124, no. 39, illustrated
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 17, 18, 151, 626
  • 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. 27, 112, 149, 433, 443
  • Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 4
  • Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), nos. 579, 590
  • Illustrated Handbook of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Art Objects, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1939), p. 118, no. 734
  • Antoine-Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (San Antonio, TX, 1965), no. 20
  • The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1965), nos. 390. 391
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 69, p. 435, text pp. 317-318; FAM cast no. 69a
  • Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), no. 24
  • 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. 64
  • 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. 84, no. IV (Appendix A)

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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