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BARYE, Antoine-Louis

Paris 1795 - Paris 1875

Loup qui marche, ou Loup marchant, ou Loup défendant sa proie

Walking Wolf

modeled 1840s (?); first cast ca. 1874

bronze with dark brown patina with black and green undertones (surface altered from corrosion)

statuette

Dimensions (HxWxD): 10 x 15 1⁄4 x 4 3⁄4 in.

Acc. No.: 27.65

Credit Line: Acquired by William T. Walters, 1888

Photo credit: The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Baltimore, Maryland, The Walters Art Museum

thewalters.org

Provenance

  • Gaston Camentron [former employee of Hector Brame]
  • 1888, July 28, William T. Walters, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]
  • 1894, Baltimore, Henry Walters, by inheritance
  • 1931, Walters Art Museum, by bequest

Comment

  • Museum's information, April 2013:
    A ferocious-looking, striding wolf walks bares its teeth. This unique cast is fastened to a black marble plinth bearing a plaque inscribed: To his friend Rousseau / His admirer A. L. Barye.
    Since the 1840s, Barye had been a friend of Théodore Rousseau (1812-67), the landscape specialist who was regarded as the leader of the Barbizon school of painters.