Object Information

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

Python and a Gnu, cast c.1934/35

Bronze
10 9/16 x 15 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (26.8 x 40.1 x 19.7 cm)
Inscribed: Barye and Tiffany & Co.
George F. Harding Collection, 1984.35

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Charles DeKay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor (New York: Barye Monument Association, 1889), pp. 54, 111.

Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1974), pp. 14-15, 238, cat. A199.

Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. 83-85.

Peter Fusco and H. W. Janson, eds., The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980), pp. 131-32.

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

Edward J. Nygren, “Barye’s Dramas of Animal Passions,” Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, edited by Lilien F. Robinson and Edward J. Nygren (Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988), pp. 34-35.

Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, La griffe et la dent, Antoine Louise Barye (1795–1875) sculpteur animalier (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996), pp. 53-57.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 355, cat. A16.

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.