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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.149
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Bear on a Tree, Eating an Owl
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Ours Monté sur un arbre, mangeant un hibou / Bear Devouring an Owl / Bear Surprising an Owl
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1865
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228802

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with green and brown patina
Technique
Lost-wax process
Dimensions
18.7 x 17.2 x 11.1 cm (7 3/8 x 6 3/4 x 4 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: side of base, 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
1956.149
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, no. 214
  • 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. 214
  • 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. 604
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye (modèles), auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, April 24, 1884), no. 42
  • 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. 241, 361
  • Charles de Kay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), no. 31
  • Antoine-Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (San Antonio, TX, 1965), no. 57
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 109, p. 458, text pp. 359-360; FAM cast no. 109a
  • Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), no. 74
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), p. 90, VII (Appendix A)
  • 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. 42, no. 15
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 125, 129

Exhibition History

  • The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye, Sladmore Gallery, London, 06/20/1972 - 07/08/1972
  • 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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