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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1086
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Deer
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Un cerf la jamb levée
Alternate Title: Stag, left foreleg raised, head drawn back
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230138

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red wax over an armature, with original wooden base
Dimensions
16.8 x 19.9 x 7.9 cm (6 5/8 x 7 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base, proper rear left of animal: BARYE
  • label: Under side of base, brown ink: "140"
  • label: toward rear, blue ink: "54"

Provenance

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

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1086
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), repr., p. 37
  • 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. 38, no. 13

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
  • Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

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