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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.162
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Spaniel and Duck
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Setter with Duck / Spaniel Pointing a Pheasant / Épagneul en arrêt sur un faisan
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1820-c. 1830
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228485

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with brown and black patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
7.6 x 12.1 x 6.9 cm (3 x 4 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: top of base, proper right rear of animal: BARYE
  • label: Inside base, tape with typed number: 2.9.48 A. L. Sharpe.

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
1956.162
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. I, no. 28
  • 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. 80, 305
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 194, p. 527, text pp. 310-312; FAM cast is no. 194a
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), p. 114, A28
  • 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. 22, no. 5

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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