1943.1127: Eagle with Outstretched Wings and Open Beak

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1127

People

Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)

Title

Eagle with Outstretched Wings and Open Beak

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Aigle les ailes etendues, le bec ouvert / Aigle
Alternate Title: Eagle Alighting

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 1845

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229885

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze, with reddish brown, green and black patina

Technique

Cast, sand

Dimensions

25.24 x 33.81 x 24.77 cm (9 15/16 x 13 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: on base, proper right: A L BARYE
• inscription: interior, black ink, painted: "107"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Count de Berthet. [Knoedler and Co., New York, NY (by 1912), sold March 18, 1912]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

1. According to a letter dated January 22, 1940 from Grenville L. Winthrop to Germain Seligman, Mr. Winthrop paid Knoedler and Co. $2,000 for the piece (Jacques Seligmann & Co. archives, Archives of American Art online).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1127

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. I, no. 132
• 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. B131
• Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 108, 168, 287, 332
• 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. 331
• Charles de Kay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), pp. 59-60, repr.
• Roger Ballu, L'Oeuvre de Barye, Maison Quantin (Paris, France, 1890), p. 64, repr.
• Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 6
• Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), nos. 425, 439
• The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1965), no. 360
• Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 28, p. 402; FAM version is no. 28b; text, p. 359-360
• Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye: the Bernard Black-Hugues Nadeau Collection, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, December 3, 1971), no. 34
• Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A169
• 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

Exhibition History

• Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
• 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

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