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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.141
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Elephant of Senegal
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Éléphant du Senegal
Alternate Title: Senegalese Elephant
Alternate Title: A Senegalese Elephant Running
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1865
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228800

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with black over green patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
13.8 x 20.3 x 8.4 cm (5 7/16 x 8 x 3 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base, proper right of animal: BARYE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Henry Dexter Sharpe, Providence, by descent?; to Mrs. Henry Dexter Sharpe, Providence, 1954, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1956

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Henry Dexter Sharpe Collection
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.141
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. II, 91, 211
  • 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. B211
  • 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. 676
  • Arsène Alexandre, A. L. Barye, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, France, 1889), p. 89, repr.
  • Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), nos. 21, 86, repr.
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 1, 368, 458
  • 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. 22
  • Roger Ballu, L'Oeuvre de Barye, Maison Quantin (Paris, France, 1890), p. 46, repr.
  • Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 5
  • E. W. Hopkins, Antoine-Louis Barye, Bates and Guild Co. (Boston, MA, 1904), pl. 2
  • Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), no. 585
  • Charles Saunier, Barye, F. Rieder & cie (Paris, France, 1925), pl. 23
  • Collection George Haviland, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, June 2, 1932 - June 3, 1932), no. 59, pl. 16
  • Preston Remington, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Picture Book, Metropolitan Museum of Art Press (New York, NY, 1940), no. 15
  • Gerard Hubert and Maurice Sérullaz, Barye: Sculptures, Peintures, Aquarelles des Collectons Publiques Françaises, exh. cat., Musée National du Louvre (Paris, France, 1956), no. 38
  • Gerard Hubert, "Barye...ce méconnu", Jardin des Arts (1957), no. 27, p. 155
  • Antoine-Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (San Antonio, TX, 1965), no. 26
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 29, pp. 403-404; FAM version is 29e; text pp. 337-339
  • Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye: the Bernard Black-Hugues Nadeau Collection, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, December 3, 1971), no. 22
  • Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), no. 76
  • James Mackay, The Animaliers: the Animal Sculptors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Ward Lock Ltd. (London, England, 1973), p. 48, repr.
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A90
  • 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. 62, no. 24
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 76, 86

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

Verification Level

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