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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.153
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
A Pointer Flushing Ducks
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Pointer and Ducks / Dog Pointing / Braque en Arrêt
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
c. 1824-c. 1826
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228431

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with light brown patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
10.1 x 14.1 cm (4 x 5 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: 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
1956.153
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 267, 352
  • Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), no. 460
  • Preston Remington, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Picture Book, Metropolitan Museum of Art Press (New York, NY, 1940), fig. 5
  • Antoine-Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (San Antonio, TX, 1965), no. 4
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 191, p. 524; text pp. 310-312; FAM version is no. 191b
  • Antoine-Louis Barye 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), no. 26
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. R16
  • 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. 16, no. 1

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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