1956.161: Half-Blood Horse

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1956.161

People

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

Title

Half-Blood Horse

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Cheval Demi-Sang / Standing Half-Blood Horse

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

19th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228563

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze with bright green over brown patina with some reddish areas

Technique

Cast, sand

Dimensions

14 × 17.7 × 5.9 cm (5 1/2 × 6 15/16 × 2 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: top of base, proper right of animal: BARYE
• inscription: under base, black ink: HDS from SDK
  

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

1956.161

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Bronzes de Barye en vente dans ses magasins, auct. cat., Rue Saint-Anastase, 10 (Paris, France, n.d.), no. 22 or 23
• Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., 12, Rue Chaptal (Chaussé d'Antin) (Paris, France, n.d.), no. 22 or 23
• Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., Rue de Boulogne, no. 6, Chausée d'Antin (Paris, France, 1847 - 1848), nos. 22, 23
• Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, Statuaire, Exposition Universelle 1855 La Grande Médaille d'Honneur, exh. cat., Quai des Celestins, 10 (Paris, France, 1855), no. 78
• 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. 96
• 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), nos. 701, 702
• Catalogue des bronzes de Barye. Modèles, tableaux et dessins Composant la collection de M. Auguste Sichel, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, February 27, 1886), no. 20
• Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 41, 159, 275, 359, 364
• 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. 105, 341, 368, 387, 439
• Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 5
• Gerard Hubert and Maurice Sérullaz, Barye: Sculptures, Peintures, Aquarelles des Collectons Publiques Françaises, exh. cat., Musée National du Louvre (Paris, France, 1956), no. 66
• Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 41, p. 412; text, pp. 349-351. Fogg cast no. 41b
• Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), repr., no. 12
• Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A148; repr. p. 204
• 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. 46, no. 17
• Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 92, 93

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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