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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1126
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Walking Lion
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Un Lion qui Marche
Alternate Title: Striding Lion
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227640

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze, with black over light brown patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
34.2 x 47.5 x 18.5 cm (13 7/16 x 18 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: top of base: BARYE (stamped into wax on base)

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
1943.1126
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. B218
  • 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. 511
  • Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), pp. 111-112
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 343, 623
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, [see remarks]
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A49; repr. p. 132
  • Barye Bronzes from the Collection of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, auct. cat., Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. (New York, NY, October 29, 1975), no. 61, repr.
  • 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. 72, no. 29
  • Victorian Sculpture, auct. cat., Christie's, East (New York, NY, March 16, 1982), fig. 120, repr.
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 4, 84-85
  • Maria Rosa Figueiredo, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), vol. I, repr. in b/w no. 34, p. 140: cf. 1943.1126

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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