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    Lion Fighting a Serpent
    Antoine Louis Barye. Lion Fighting a Serpent, 1847–55. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001823

    Lion Fighting a Serpent

    by Antoine Louis Barye

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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).

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    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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