About This Artwork

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

Roger and Angelica Mounted on the Hippogriff, modeled c. 1840 (cast c. 1884)

Bronze
51.1 x 66.8 x 32 cm (20 1/8 x 26 1/4 x 12 5/8 in.)
Inscribed faintly: Barye on front of base.
Inside on tape: 5474.
George F. Harding Collection, 1984.34

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections," 22 July - 8 October 1972 [no cat.].

Publication History

Charles DeKay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor (New York: Barye Monument Association, 1889), pp. 70-73, no. 53.

Jane Van Nimmen and Ruth Mirolli, Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture: Monuments for the Middle Class, (Louisville, Kentucky: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1971), pp. 39–50.

Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1974), pp. 7, 20, 65, cat. F16.

Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), pp. 95-96, fig. 84.

Elizabeth Briggs Lynch, “Barye’s Mythological Subjects,” Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, edited by Lilien F. Robinson and Edward J. Nygren (Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988), pp. 45-47.

Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, La griffe et la dent, Antoine Louise Barye (1795–1875) sculpteur animalier (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996), pp. 38-45.

Édith Mannoni, Barye (Paris: Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1996) pp. 79, 96-98.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), pp. 92-95, cats. F22, F23.

Ownership History

George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, by 1939; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1984.