Object Information
Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875
Emile Diaz, Son of the Painter, 1850/75
Bronze
diameter: 15 in. (38.1 cm); depth: 2 1/4 in. (5.8 cm)
Mark: the signature "Barye" appears underneath the shoulder of the relief profile
The name, "EMILE", proper right edge, side of back of head profile.
Bequest of Arthur Rubloff, 1988.36.4
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1974), pp. 46, 243, cat. R6.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes From the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (October 29, 1975), lot 146.
Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), fig. 52.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 450, cat. CS 121.
Ownership History
Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.