About This Artwork

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

Lion of the Column of July, 1840/50

Bronze
26.9 x 55.2 x 7.9 cm (10 9/16 x 21 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
Marks: The artist's name "BARYE" is located at the proper left bottom frontal plane of the object.
Bequest of Arthur Rubloff, 1988.36.3

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

F. Barbedienne, Bronzes d’art: oeuvres de A.-L. Barye (Paris, 1893), cf. p. 8.

Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1974), p. 244, cat. R7.

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes from the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (October 29, 1975), lot 148.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), pp. 357-58, cat. A218.

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