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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1395
People
After Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Previously attributed to Alfred Barye, French (Paris 1839 - 1882)
Title
A Jaguar Devouring a Hare
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Jaguar devorant un lièvre
Alternate Title: Lion Devouring a Hare
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1850
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229720

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with brownish black with green patina (reddish brown in worn areas)
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
13.49 x 33.5 x 14.29 cm (5 5/16 x 13 3/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base, proper left of jaguar's tail: L. BARYE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1395
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@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. 65
  • 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. B76
  • Paul Mantz, "Artistes contemporains, M. Barye", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (February 1, 1867), vol. I, pp. 121-123
  • 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. 725
  • 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. 1
  • 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. 242-243
  • Arsène Alexandre, A. L. Barye, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, France, 1889), pp. 55-56, p. 17, repr.
  • Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), no. 59, pp. 89-90, repr.
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 6, 246
  • 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. 7, 406
  • Roger Ballu, L'Oeuvre de Barye, Maison Quantin (Paris, France, 1890), pp. 104, 106, 109, repr. p. 106
  • Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 4
  • Charles Sprague Smith, Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye, A. Wessels Co. (New York, NY, 1902), p. 220. repr.
  • E. W. Hopkins, Antoine-Louis Barye, Bates and Guild Co. (Boston, MA, 1904), p. 9
  • Collection Antony Roux, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, May 19 1914 - May 20 1914), p. 83, no. 116, repr.
  • La Donation Jacques Zoubaloff aux Musées de France, Editions Albert Morancé (Paris, France, 1920 - 1930), p. 14, no. 1565, p. 17, no. 1553
  • Charles Saunier, Barye, F. Rieder & cie (Paris, France, 1925), pp. 35-36, pl. 14
  • Illustrated Handbook of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Art Objects, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1939), p. 121, no. 798
  • Gerard Hubert, "Barye et la critique de son temps", Revue des Arts (1956), vol. VI, no. 4, p. 227, repr.
  • Gerard Hubert and Maurice Sérullaz, Barye: Sculptures, Peintures, Aquarelles des Collectons Publiques Françaises, exh. cat., Musée National du Louvre (Paris, France, 1956), no. 4
  • Gerard Hubert, "Barye...ce méconnu", Jardin des Arts (1957), no. 27, p. 157
  • Antoine-Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (San Antonio, TX, 1965), no. 54, repr.
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, pp. 20, 362-363; cat. no. 128
  • Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye: the Bernard Black-Hugues Nadeau Collection, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, December 3, 1971), no. 59, repr.
  • Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), repr., no. 10
  • Tableaux modernes: collection de bronzes par Barye appartenant à divers amateurs, auct. cat., Palais Galliera (Paris, France, March 16, 1972), no. 50
  • James Mackay, The Animaliers: the Animal Sculptors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Ward Lock Ltd. (London, England, 1973), p. 36
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), pp. 8, 17-18, cat. no. A82; repr. p. 154
  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), p. 78
  • Peter Fusco and H. W. Janson, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, CA, 1980), p. 125
  • 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. 50, no. 19
  • Victorian Sculpture, auct. cat., Christie's, East (New York, NY, March 16, 1982), p. 124, fig. 121, repr.
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 6, 11, 36, 47, 74

Exhibition History

  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • 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

Verification Level

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