Antoine Louis BARYE

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Antoine Louis BARYE
Antoine-Louis BARYE (1795-1875) - Theseus fighting the Centaur Bienor, Circa circa 1890 - Bronze with brown patina, signed " AL BARYE ", Barbedienne cast iron 4th reduction, bears the mention " Barbedienne Fondeur " - 37.5 x 40.5 x 14 cm - Note: Commissioned in 1849 by the State for the sum of 10 000 francs, the original plaster was exhibited at the Salon of 1850. The original group of more than one meter twenty-eight high allowed Barye to impose himself according to Theophile Gaultier as "the closest to Phidias and Greek sculpture". Only five life-size proofs, executed during the artist's lifetime between 1857 and 1875, are listed, one of which is in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the other in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The model is known today through the bronze reductions of Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892). Bibliography: Michel Poletti & Alain Richarme, catalog raisonné Barye, model referenced p.62
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