Harvard Art Museums > 1956.167: Lion with a Serpent Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Lion with a Serpent (Antoine Louis Barye) , 1956.167,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 12, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/228564. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu