
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001924Python and a Gnu
Inscriptions
Inscribed: Barye and Tiffany & Co.
Provenance
George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, by 1939; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1984.
Publications
Charles DeKay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor (New York: Barye Monument Association, 1889), pp. 54, 111. Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1974), pp. 14-15, 238, cat. A199. Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. 83-85. Peter Fusco and H. W. Janson, eds., The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980), pp. 131-32. Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), fig. 96. Edward J. Nygren, “Barye’s Dramas of Animal Passions,” Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, edited by Lilien F. Robinson and Edward J. Nygren (Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988), pp. 34-35. Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, La griffe et la dent, Antoine Louise Barye (1795–1875) sculpteur animalier (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996), pp. 53-57. Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 355, cat. A16.
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
- Cast c. 1934–35
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 26.8 × 40.1 × 19.7 cm (10 9/16 × 15 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1984.35
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