About This Artwork

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

Theseus Combating the Centaur Bienor, c. 1850

Bronze
127 x 100.3 x 38.1 cm (50 x 39 1/2 x 15 in.)
Signed: BARYE

Marked: F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR
Gift of Arthur Rubloff, 1985.769

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, “Les Animaliers: Animal Subjects by French Sculptors, 1830–1900, from the Arthur Rubloff Collection," 1 February – 31 March 1985 [no cat.].

Publication History

Charles DeKay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor (New York: Barye Monument Association, 1889), pp. 75-80, no. 60.

Jane Horswell, Bronze Sculpture of Les Animaliers: Reference and Price Guide (Clopton, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1971), cf. p. 53.

Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1974), p. 69, cat. F21.

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes from the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (October 29, 1975), lot 141.

Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), pp. 115-16, fig. 106.

Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1985-86, p. 7, pl. 10 (ill.).

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. 41-44.

Édith Mannoni, Barye (Paris: Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1996), pp. 80-81.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), pp. 109-11, cats. F33, F34.

Ownership History

Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (d. 1973), Madison, New Jersey, by 1973; sold, her estate sale, Sotheby Park Bernet, Inc., New York, 29 October 1975, lot 141, to Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1985.