Lion marchant
Walking Lion
bronze
statuette
Dimensions (HxWxD): 13 7⁄16 x 18 11⁄16 x 7 5⁄16 in.
on top of base: BARYE
Acc. No.: 1943.1126
Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.1126
Photo credit: 2009 President and Fellows of Harvard College
© Artist : public domain
© Artist : public domain
Provenance
- 1943, bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, to the Fogg Art Museum
Bibliography
- Museum's website, January 20, 2013
- 1865 Exposition Universelle
Catalogue des bronzes de A.L. Barye, Statuaire, Exposition Universelle de 1865 La Grande Médaille d'Honneur, exh. cat., Paris, Quai des Celestins, 4, 1865, no. B218 - 1876 Hôtel Drouot
Catalogue des oeuvres de feu Barye. Bronzes, aquarelles-tableaux, cires terres cuites, marbres, plâtres, auct. cat., Paris, Hôtel Drouot, February 7-12 1876, no. 511 - 1889 Guillaume
Eugène Guillaume, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Barye, Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1889, no. 343, 623 - 1889 De Kay
Charles de Kay, Barye: Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye, sculptor, New York, Barye Monument Association, 1889, p. 111-112 - 1969 Benge
Glenn Franklin Benge, "The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American Collections", Thesis, University of Iowa, 1969 - 1974 Pivar
Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Woodridge, Antique Collector's Club Ltd., 1974, no. A49, p. 132, repr. - 1975 Sotheby Parke Bernet
Barye Bronzes from the Collection of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, auct. cat., New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., October 29, 1975, no. 61, repr. - 1982 Wasserman, Beale
Jeanne L. Wasserman and Arthur Beale, Sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1982, no. 29, p. 72 - 1982 Christie's East
Victorian Sculpture, auct. cat., New York, Christie's East, March 16, 1982, fig. 120, repr. - 1984 Benge
Glenn Franklin Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism, University Park and London, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984, p. 4, 84-85 - 1992 Figueiredo
Maria Rosa Figueiredo, A Escultura Francesa, Lisbon, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, 1992, vol. I, no. 34, p. 140, repr.
Exhibitions
- 1981 Cambridge, MA
A Bronze Menagerie and Other Works by Antoine-Louis Barye from the Fogg Museum's Collection, Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, September 25-December 27, 1981, no. 6
Related works
- Bronze, New Yyork, Brooklyn Museum.
Bronze, Baltimore, Walkers Art Gallery.
Bronze, Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery.
Pendant: Walking Tiger.
Comment
- Jeanne L. Wasserman and Arthur Beale, Sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, 1982, p. 72:
At first glance, the Fogg lion appears to be cast of one of Barye's most popular subjects, illustrated in Ballu, De Kay, Alexandre, Benge and Pivar, as well as in countless exhibition and sales catalogues. In fact, no less than nine casts were exhibited by the Barye Monument Society in 1889. The Walking Lion, usually dated the mid-thirties, appears in all six Barye sales catalogues with the dimensions 23 x 40 cm.