About This Artwork

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

Lion Fighting a Serpent, 1847/55

Bronze
27.9 x 33 x 15.2 cm (11 x 13 x 6 in.)
Signature: Barye
Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson, 1962.818

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute Quarterly 58, 1 (1964), p. 9 (ill.).

Jane Van Nimmen and Ruth Mirolli, Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture: Monuments for the Middle Class (Louisville, Kentucky: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1971), pp. 41-42, 46, fig. 4.

Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1974), p. 123, cat. A38.

Glenn F. Benge, “Antoine-Louis Barye (1796–1875),” Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, edited by Jeanne L. Wasserman (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. 89-107.

Jeanne L. Wasserman, Sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum Handbooks, 1982), pp. 40-41.

Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), pp. 119-23, fig. 110.

Elizabeth W. Harter and Laurence Palmer, “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. 18.

Édith Mannoni, Barye (Paris: Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1996), pp. 12-13, 16-17.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 177, cat. A53.

Bernard Black Gallery, Notes on the Casting Method of Antoine-Louis Barye (1796–1875).

Ownership History

Gerald Kerin, Ltd., London, before 1962; sold by Gerald Kerin to the Art Institute, 1962.