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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1927.100
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Frightened Hare
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Lièvre effrayé
Alternate Title: Startled Hare/A Crouching Hare/Crouching Rabbit, Ears Lowered/Rabbit, Ears Raised
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1865
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231582

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with brown and black patina
Technique
Cast, sand
Dimensions
4.3 x 5.5 x 3.1 cm (1 11/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base, proper right side: BARYE
  • inscription: F. Barbedienne
  • inscription:

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Robert Hatton Monks, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Robert H. Monks
Accession Year
1927
Object Number
1927.100
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 196
  • 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. 649
  • Arsène Alexandre, A. L. Barye, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, France, 1889), p. 59
  • Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), no. 80
  • Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 5
  • Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), no. 509
  • Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, [see remarks]
  • Tableaux modernes: collection de bronzes par Barye appartenant à divers amateurs, auct. cat., Palais Galliera (Paris, France, March 16, 1972), no. 38
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. 191
  • 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. 24, no. 6

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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