Quality Reproduction Bronze Sculpture Of Hunting Lioness

Quality Reproduction bronze sculpture of hunting lioness. Copyrighted and Signed Louis Barye 1833. This amazing sculpture features a hunting lioness following footprints on a black marble base. In excellent used condition with age-appropriate patina. Please see photos for more details. Approximate Measurements: 22.5”W x 7.5”D x 14”H

About the Artist: Antoine-Louis Barye: French sculptor, painter, and printmaker, whose subject was primarily animals. He is known as the father of the modern Animalier School. The son of a jeweler, Barye was apprenticed to an engraver of military equipment at age 13; after serving in the army, he worked for a time in the jewelry trade. In about 1817 he began to sculpt while working in the studio of the sculptor François Bosio. He was also influenced by the Romantic paintings of Théodore Géricault. From 1823 to 1831 he worked with Jacques-Henri Fauconnier, a goldsmith. Barye’s talent for rendering dynamic tension and exact anatomical detail is especially evident in his most famous bronzes, those of wild animals struggling with or devouring their prey. Barye gradually gained a reputation as a monumental sculptor with government commissions for images of wild animals in the 1830s, figure groups and portraits for the facade of the Louvre in the 1850s, and freestanding Napoleonic monuments in the 1860s. He first exhibited his bronzes at the Salons of 1827 and 1831, receiving a second prize for his Lion Devouring a Gavial. He withdrew from exhibiting in the Salon in the 1830s after a celebrated small-scale project was rejected as goldsmithery (i.e., not “high art”), but he returned in 1850, to great acclaim.

22.5" x 7.5" x 14"

18%

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SEA CLIFF, NY 11579

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Saturday, 1/22, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

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