About This Artwork

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

Relief of a Walking Lion, 1850/1900

Bronze
20.3 x 41.3 cm (8 x 16 1/4 in.)
Inscription: BARYE
Bequest of Arthur Rubloff, 1996.601

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

American Art Galleries, The Collection of a Connoisseur: Art Treasures Collected by the Late Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1910), p. 354, no. 113.

Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1974), p. 244, cat. R8.

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes From the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (October 29, 1975), lot 149.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 356, cat. A217.

Ownership History

Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1996.