Bronze after BARYE, Jaguar devouring a hareA patinated bronze representing a jaguar devouring a hare. His muscles and folds of skin under tension are very well rendered. Antoine Louis Barye 1795-1875 is the first and the greatest animal sculptor of the nineteenth century. He studied animals from real life in the Paris Jardon des Plantes he observed them as a real anatomist. He was enthralled by the power, contained strength , of the flexible beasts. Barye's career began modestly at first, then brilliant, with his "Tiger devouring a Crocodile" presented at the Salon of 1831. This is the real beginning of a long career that will face the hostility of the academic. Barye developed significant animal subjects but does not disdain the human figure and the nude. At the Universal Exhibition of 1855 he presented "the Jaguar devouring a hare. The painter Leon Bonnat said "I think, in the opinion of all this is the masterpiece of masterpieces of this artist who created so many". What emerges from this wonderful bronze printing extraordinary ferocity and savagery. Upon the sale of the workshop after the death of Barye in 1876, Ferdinand Barbedienne bought 125 models with reproduction rights, produced in early editions of the twentieth century. The Musée du Louvre got them back. On the other hand casts, waxes and bronzes were sold to various buyers who also edited extensively during the twenty century.
Circa :1890
Dim: W: 13,8 in - D: 7,1in - H: 5,9in.
Dim: L:35cm, P:18cm, H:15cm.
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