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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1284
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Reclining Panther
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Une Panthere Couchée
Alternate Title: Panther of India
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1840
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229904

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with brown patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
6.99 x 19.05 x 7 cm (2 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: top of base, proper front of panther: BARYE
  • label: under base: Two stickers under base: From H. Burlingham 1928; Soden Smith Collection Edinborough Museum 1911; From [ ] House.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Soden Smith, to Edinburgh Museum, 1911.
H. Burlingham, 1928.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York NY, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1284
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bronzes de Barye en vente dans ses magasins, auct. cat., Rue Saint-Anastase, 10 (Paris, France, n.d.), no. 11
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., 12, Rue Chaptal (Chaussé d'Antin) (Paris, France, n.d.), no. 11
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., Rue de Boulogne, no. 6, Chausée d'Antin (Paris, France, 1847 - 1848), no. 11
  • Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, Statuaire, Exposition Universelle 1855 La Grande Médaille d'Honneur, exh. cat., Quai des Celestins, 10 (Paris, France, 1855), no. 56
  • 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. B65
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 19, 150, 360, 413, 460
  • 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. 26, 434
  • 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. 19
  • Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 4
  • Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), no. 436
  • Collection Antony Roux, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, May 19 1914 - May 20 1914), no. 101, p. 77, repr.
  • The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1965), no. 392
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 68, pp. 434-435; FAM version is 68e; text, pp. 317-318
  • Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye: the Bernard Black-Hugues Nadeau Collection, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, December 3, 1971), no. 23, repr.
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A72
  • 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. 56, no. 21
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 76, 80
  • Maria Rosa Figueiredo, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), vol. I, p. 146, no. 36

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

Verification Level

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