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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.160
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Reclining Panther Holding a Muntjac Deer
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Panthère Couchée tenant un cerf muntjac / Panther Holding a Muntjac Deer / Panther and Gazelle
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1865
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228433

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with dark green patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
10.2 x 21.3 x 8.4 cm (4 x 8 3/8 x 3 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: side of base, proper left of animal: 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
1956.160
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. 223
  • 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. 223
  • 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. 654
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 453, 569bis
  • 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), no. 239
  • Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), no. 426
  • Gerard Hubert and Maurice Sérullaz, Barye: Sculptures, Peintures, Aquarelles des Collectons Publiques Françaises, exh. cat., Musée National du Louvre (Paris, France, 1956), no. 17
  • The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1965), no. 394
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 143, p. 488; text, p. 336-337; FAM cast is no. 143b
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A75; repr. p. 151
  • 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. 58, no. 22

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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