About This Artwork

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795–1875

Panther Seizing a Stag, modeled c. 1833 (cast 1889)

Bronze
36.8 x 53.3 x 22.1 cm (14 1/2 x 21 x 11 1/4 in.)
Signed right: BARYE.
Marked base front, right of center: Exposition Universelle, 1889, Paris
Marked rear left: F. Barbedienne, Fondeur.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Hyman, 1975.199

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections," 22 July - 8 October 1972 [no cat.].

Publication History

Louise D’Argencourt and Douglas Druick, The Other Nineteenth Century: Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Tanenbaum (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1978), p. 202.

Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), fig. 133.

Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères, 150 Years of Sculpture (Paris: Susse Frères, 1992), pp. 33, 213, 299, 343.

Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, La griffe et la dent, Antoine Louise Barye (1795–1875) sculpteur animalier (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996), pp. 48-49.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 216, cat. A81(2).

Musée des Arts décoratifs de Bordeaux, Autour de Barye et de Pompon: Sculptures animalières des XIX et XX siècles (Bordeaux: Musée des Arts décoratifs de Bordeaux, 2002), p. 21, cf. 1.

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Hyman, Chicago, by 1971; loaned to the Art Institute, 1971; given to the Art Institute, 1975.