1956.147: A Stag Braying

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1956.147

People

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

Title

A Stag Braying

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Cerf Bramant / Stag Braying

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 1865

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228540

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze, with green patina (over reddish brown in more rubbed areas)

Technique

Cast, sand

Dimensions

23.2 x 21.4 x 8.8 cm (9 1/8 x 8 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: top of base, rear proper right 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

1956.147

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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, p. 213
• 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. 213
• 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. 653
• Catalogue des bronzes de Barye (modèles), auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, April 24, 1884), no. 60
• Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 58, 132, 250
• 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. 70
• Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 5
• La Donation Jacques Zoubaloff aux Musées de France, Editions Albert Morancé (Paris, France, 1920 - 1930), p. 16, no. 1597
• Luc Benoist, La Sculpture Romantique, La Renaissance du Livre (Paris, France, 1928), p. 151
• Gerard Hubert and Maurice Sérullaz, Barye: Sculptures, Peintures, Aquarelles des Collectons Publiques Françaises, exh. cat., Musée National du Louvre (Paris, France, 1956), no. 49, pl. IX
• Gerard Hubert, "Barye...ce méconnu", Jardin des Arts (1957), no. 27, p. 154, repr.
• Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 85, p. 443; text pp. 308-310; FAM cast no. 85a, repr. fig. 36
• Tableaux modernes: collection de bronzes par Barye appartenant à divers amateurs, auct. cat., Palais Galliera (Paris, France, March 16, 1972), no. 17
• Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A118
• 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. 36, no. 12
• Maria Rosa Figueiredo, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), vol. I, listed under no. 29

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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