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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.167
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Lion with a Serpent
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Lion au Serpent / Lion Crushing a Serpent
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1833
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228564

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with golden brown with dark brown patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
25.7 × 35.6 × 18.4 cm (10 1/8 × 14 × 7 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base, proper right, rear: BARYE
  • collector's mark: inside base: red "H" on white fabric

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
1956.167
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., Rue de Boulogne, no. 6, Chausée d'Antin (Paris, France, 1847 - 1848), no. 66
  • Gustave Planche, "Barye", Revue des Deux Mondes (1851), vol. XI, pp. 48-51
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, Statuaire, Exposition Universelle 1855 La Grande Médaille d'Honneur, exh. cat., Quai des Celestins, 10 (Paris, France, 1855), no. 44
  • 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. 40
  • Paul Mantz, "Artistes contemporains, M. Barye", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (February 1, 1867), vol. I, pp. 114-115, 119
  • 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. 432, 433, 699
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye (modèles), auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, April 24, 1884), no. 10
  • 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. 3
  • J. J. Guillaume, "Exposition des Oeuvres de Barye a l'École des Beaux-Arts", Nouvelles Archives de l'Art Français (1889), 3rd series, vol. V, pp. 198, 200-203, 205-206, 221-222
  • Arsène Alexandre, A. L. Barye, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, France, 1889), p. 13, repr.
  • Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), pp. 2, 25, 26, 31-35, 61, 135, no. 24 repr.
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 204, 264, 477, 520, 550, 558, 565, 604
  • 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. 36, 137, 218, 287, 356
  • Roger Ballu, L'Oeuvre de Barye, Maison Quantin (Paris, France, 1890), pp. 47-52, p. 48, repr.
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye Tableaux modernes par Corot, J. Dupré, Gericault et Troyon. Eaux fortes de Rembrandt. Composant la collection de M. CH. B., auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, January 31, 1891), no. 6
  • Charles Sprague Smith, Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye, A. Wessels Co. (New York, NY, 1902), pp. 200-204, p. 203, repr.
  • E. W. Hopkins, Antoine-Louis Barye, Bates and Guild Co. (Boston, MA, 1904), pl. 10
  • Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), no. 489
  • Collection Antony Roux, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, May 19 1914 - May 20 1914), p. 84, no. 120, repr.
  • Charles Saunier, Barye, F. Rieder & cie (Paris, France, 1925), pp. 17-19, pl. 2
  • Illustrated Handbook of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Art Objects, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1939), p. 1176, no. 722
  • Preston Remington, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Picture Book, Metropolitan Museum of Art Press (New York, NY, 1940), no. 13
  • Gerard Hubert, "Barye et la critique de son temps", Revue des Arts (1956), vol. VI, pp. 225-226, 229, no. 2, repr.
  • Gerard Hubert and Maurice Sérullaz, Barye: Sculptures, Peintures, Aquarelles des Collectons Publiques Françaises, exh. cat., Musée National du Louvre (Paris, France, 1956), no. 10
  • Alfonz Lengyel, Life and Art of Antoine-Louis Barye, Brown (Dubuque, IA, 1963), repr.
  • Antoine-Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (San Antonio, TX, 1965), no. 8
  • The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1965), no. 381
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 134, p. 479; text pp. 321-323; FAM cast no. 134c
  • Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye: the Bernard Black-Hugues Nadeau Collection, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, December 3, 1971), no. 17, repr.
  • Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), repr., no. 2
  • Importante collection de bronzes par Antoine-Louis Barye, appartenant à Madame L, auct. cat., Palais Galliera (Paris, France, June 9, 1972), no. 27, repr.
  • James Mackay, The Animaliers: the Animal Sculptors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Ward Lock Ltd. (London, England, 1973), p. 26
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A34; repr. p. 122
  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), pp. 89-104, no. 32, p. 107
  • Peter Fusco and H. W. Janson, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, CA, 1980), pp. 124-125, 128-129
  • 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. 40, no. 14
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 3-4, 5, 6, 11, 34-37, 41, 119-123

Exhibition History

  • Metamorphoses in 19th-Century Sculpture, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/19/1975 - 01/07/1976
  • 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
  • Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the 19th Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/13/1996 - 07/21/2002

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