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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Cheval Turk
    Antoine Louis Barye. Cheval Turk, 1850–1900. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001973

    Cheval Turk

    by Antoine Louis Barye

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1996.

    Publications

    American Art Galleries, The Collection of a Connoisseur: Art Treasures Collected by the Late Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1910), no. 321 (65). Jeanne L. Wasserman, Sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum Handbooks, 1982), pp. 52-55. Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), p. 93, fig. 82. Elizabeth W. Harter and Laurence Pamer, “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. 19. Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), pp. 267-69, cat. A129 or A130.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Antoine Louis Barye (French, 1795–1875)
    Date
    1850–1900
    Medium
    Bronze
    Dimensions
    27.9 × 45.1 cm (11 × 17 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    statuette
    Style
    nineteenth century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Bequest of Arthur Rubloff
    Accession no.
    1996.602

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