About This Artwork

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

Cheval Turk, 1850/1900

Bronze
27.9 x 45.1 cm (11 x 17 3/4 in.)
Bequest of Arthur Rubloff, 1996.602

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), no. 321 (65).

Jeanne L. Wasserman, Sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum Handbooks, 1982), pp. 52-55.

Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), p. 93, fig. 82.

Elizabeth W. Harter and Laurence Pamer, “Individuality: Barye’s Aesthetic of the Particular,” in Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, edited by Lilien F. Robinson and Edward J. Nygren (Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988), p. 19.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), pp. 267-69, cat. A129 or A130.

Ownership History

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