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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.155
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Eagle with Serpent
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Aigle Tenant un Serpent / An Eagle and a Snake/ A Lammergeier and a Serpent
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
c. 1824-c. 1826
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228805

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with light brown patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
10.3 x 14.5 cm (4 1/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: 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
1956.155
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 68
  • Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), p. 15, no. 7, repr.
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 254, 387
  • 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. 99, 353
  • Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), no. 482
  • Preston Remington, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Picture Book, Metropolitan Museum of Art Press (New York, NY, 1940), fig. 3
  • Gerard Hubert and Maurice Sérullaz, Barye: Sculptures, Peintures, Aquarelles des Collectons Publiques Françaises, exh. cat., Musée National du Louvre (Paris, France, 1956), no. 84
  • Antoine-Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (San Antonio, TX, 1965), no. 3
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 119, p. 466; FAM cast no. 119b
  • Importante collection de bronzes par Antoine-Louis Barye, appartenant à Madame L, auct. cat., Palais Galliera (Paris, France, June 9, 1972), no. 46
  • Tableaux modernes: collection de bronzes par Barye appartenant à divers amateurs, auct. cat., Palais Galliera (Paris, France, March 16, 1972), no. 42
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. R14
  • 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. 20, no. 3
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 22, 23

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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