1927.97: Walking Tiger

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1927.97

People

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

Title

Walking Tiger

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Un tigre qui marche
Alternate Title: Striding Tiger

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1836

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231747

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze, with green over brown patina

Technique

Cast, sand

Dimensions

21.11 x 42.55 x 10.32 cm (8 5/16 x 16 3/4 x 4 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: top of base: BARYE
• inscription: French: F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR
• inscription: Center, underside of base: 43
• 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

1927.97

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 49
• Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., 12, Rue Chaptal (Chaussé d'Antin) (Paris, France, n.d.), no. 49
• Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, auct. cat., Rue de Boulogne, no. 6, Chausée d'Antin (Paris, France, 1847 - 1848), no. 49
• Catalogue des bronzes de Barye, Statuaire, Exposition Universelle 1855 La Grande Médaille d'Honneur, exh. cat., Quai des Celestins, 10 (Paris, France, 1855), no. 54
• 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. 52
• 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), nos. 599, 657
• Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, Barye Monument Association (New York, NY, 1889), p. 10, no. 3, repr.
• Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1889), nos. 21, 148, 268
• 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. 45, 142, 221, 291, 328, 380, 395, 408, 425, 428, 448
• Roger Ballu, L'Oeuvre de Barye, Maison Quantin (Paris, France, 1890), pp. 132-133, repr.
• 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. 9
• Oeuvres de A.-L. Barye, auct. cat., Boulevard Poissonier, no. 30 (Paris, France, 1893), p. 3
• Exhibition of Paintings, Bronzes and Porcelains from the George A. Lucas Collection, exh. cat., Maryland Institute (Baltimore, MD, 1911), nos. 422, 570
• Collection Antony Roux, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, May 19 1914 - May 20 1914), p. 78, no. 102
• Charles Saunier, Barye, F. Rieder & cie (Paris, France, 1925), p. 25
• Illustrated Handbook of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Art Objects, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1939), p. 118, no. 727
• Preston Remington, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Picture Book, Metropolitan Museum of Art Press (New York, NY, 1940), fig. 20
• Gerard Hubert and Maurice Sérullaz, Barye: Sculptures, Peintures, Aquarelles des Collectons Publiques Françaises, exh. cat., Musée National du Louvre (Paris, France, 1956), no. 32
• Antoine-Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (San Antonio, TX, 1965), no. 10
• The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1965), nos. 405, 406
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 22
• Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections" (Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969), University Microfilms, no. 104, p. 453, pp. 337-339; Fogg version is no. 104e, p. 454
• Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye: the Bernard Black-Hugues Nadeau Collection, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, December 3, 1971), no. 38
• Exhibition of Sculpture, Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875, exh. cat., Educational Testing Service (London, England, 1972), no. 36
• Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Antique Collector's Club Ltd. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1974), no. A58
• 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. 48, no. 18
• Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA and London, England, 1984), p. 85
• Maria Rosa Figueiredo, A Escultura Francesa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal, 1992), vol. I, listed p. 144, under no. 35

Exhibition History

• Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
• 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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