Lion Fighting a Serpent by Antoine Louis Barye
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Lion Fighting a Serpent

Antoine Louis Barye · 1847–55

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Gerald Kerin, Ltd., London, before 1962; sold by Gerald Kerin to the Art Institute, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute Quarterly 58, 1 (1964), p. 9 (ill.).
  • Jane Van Nimmen and Ruth Mirolli, Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture: Monuments for the Middle Class (Louisville, Kentucky: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1971), pp. 41-42, 46, fig. 4.
  • Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1974), p. 123, cat. A38.
  • Glenn F. Benge, “Antoine-Louis Barye (1796–1875),” Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, edited by Jeanne L. Wasserman (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. 89-107.
  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, Sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum Handbooks, 1982), pp. 40-41.
  • Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), pp. 119-23, fig. 110.
  • Elizabeth W. Harter and Laurence Palmer, “Individuality: Barye’s Aesthetic of the Particular,” in Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, edited by Lilien F. Robinson and Edward J. Nygren (Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988), p. 18.
  • Édith Mannoni, Barye (Paris: Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1996), pp. 12-13, 16-17.
  • Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 177, cat. A53.
  • Bernard Black Gallery, Notes on the Casting Method of Antoine-Louis Barye (1796–1875).

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