BARYE, Antoine-Louis

Paris 1795 - Paris 1875

Thésée combattant le centaure Biénor (seconde version)

Theseus and the Centaur Bianor (second version)

1849-1850

bronze

group

Dimensions (HxWxD): 46 ¹⁄₈ x 21 ⁵⁄₈ x 49 ³⁄₄ in.

Acc. No.: 66.380

Credit Line: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Photo credit: 2012 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

www.hirshhorn.si.edu

Provenance

• To 20 September 1962, New York, James Graham and Sons
• 20 September 1962-17 May 1966, New York, Joseph H. Hirshhorn
• 1966, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn

Bibliography

• Museum's website
• 1967 Unsigned
  Unsigned, "A Nation's Favor Rewarded", IPS Photo Bulletin 39, April 1967, ill. p. 777
• 1974 Lerner
  Abram Lerner et al., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, Abrams, 1974, no. 44, ill. [p. 40], cat. p. 662
• 1990 Wilham
  Richard Wilham, Art About Livestock, Ames, IA, Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University, 1990, ill. p. 11
• 1998 Fletcher
  Valerie J. Fletcher, A Garden for Art, Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with Thames and Hudson, 1998, fig. 1, ill, p. 8
• 2006 Johnston and Kelly
  William R. Johnston and Simon Kelly, Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye, Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, 2006, p. 164-165 no. 63 (bronze of first version, Theseus and the Centaur Bianor, modeled c. 1846-1848; the second version, A Centaur and a Lapith, plaster exhibited at the Salon of 1850, is distinguished by the sharper angle of the centaur's bent foreleg and the higher, rocky base with its flourishing plants)

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