About This Artwork
Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875
Turtlec. 1820
Bronze
4.4 x 13.3 x 9.2 cm (1 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.)
Marks: artist's signature "Barye" is on the proper left side, below turtles shell. The number "536" has been painted underneath the base of the object.
Bequest of Arthur Rubloff, 1988.36.6
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), p. 235, cat. A193.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes from the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (October 29, 1975), lot 122.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 348, cat. A207(1).
Ownership History
Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.