
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001823Lion Fighting a Serpent
Inscriptions
Inscribed: Barye
Provenance
Gerald Kerin, Ltd., London, before 1962; sold by Gerald Kerin to the Art Institute, 1962.
Publications
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).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Antoine Louis Barye (French, 1795–1875)
- Date
- 1847–55
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 27.9 × 33 × 15.2 cm (11 × 13 × 6 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
- Accession no.
- 1962.818
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