1927.98: Kevel Antelope

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1927.98

People

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

Title

Kevel Antelope

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Gazelle

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 1820-c. 1830

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231723

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze, with reddish- brown patina

Technique

Cast, sand

Dimensions

11.1 x 10.8 x 3.9 cm (4 3/8 x 4 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: on base, proper left of animal: BARYE
• inscription: side of base, proper right center, French: F. Barbedienne, Fondeur

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

1927.98

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), no. 101
• 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. 124
• 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. 637
• 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. 51
• Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), pp. 15-16
• Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 74, 480, 487
• 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. 320, 372
• Roger Ballu, L'Oeuvre de Barye, Maison Quantin (Paris, France, 1890), p. 172
• Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 6
• Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, [see remarks]
• Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye: the Bernard Black-Hugues Nadeau Collection, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, December 3, 1971), no. 1, repr.
• Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), repr., no. 61
• Importante collection de bronzes par Antoine-Louis Barye, appartenant à Madame L, auct. cat., Palais Galliera (Paris, France, June 9, 1972), no. 7
• Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A138
• 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. 30, no. 9

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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