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
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)