1956.158: Wolf Caught in a Trap

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1956.158

People

Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)

Title

Wolf Caught in a Trap

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Loup Pris au Piège

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 1865

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228432

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze with mottled green over brown patina

Technique

Cast, sand

Dimensions

11.6 x 12.9 x 4.9 cm (4 9/16 x 5 1/16 x 1 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: side of base, proper right of animal: BARYE
• label: underside of base: red "H" on white fabric
• inscription: underside of base: 821

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

1956.158

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), vol. II, no. 193
• 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. 193
• 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. 613
• Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 334, 524
• 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. 204, 250
• Charles de Kay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), no. 41
• La Donation Jacques Zoubaloff aux Musées de France, Editions Albert Morancé (Paris, France, 1920 - 1930), p. 17, no. 6717
• Illustrated Handbook of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Art Objects, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1939), no. 789
• Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 199, p. 529; text pp. 318-320; FAM cast no. 199a
• Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye: the Bernard Black-Hugues Nadeau Collection, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, December 3, 1971), no. 32
• Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), no. 75
• Bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., Palais Galliera (Paris, France, March 13, 1973), under no. III
• Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A33; repr. p. 119
• 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. 68, no. 27
• Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 82, 104

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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