About This Artwork

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

Equestrian Group: Tartar Warrior, c. 1850/75

Bronze
37.4 x 36.1 x 13.7 cm (14 3/4 x 14 1/4 x 5 3/8 in.)
Mark: Artist's handwritten name "Barye" appears in the original cast at the front of the base.
Bequest of Arthur Rubloff, 1988.36.7

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

Charles DeKay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor (New York: Barye Monument Association, 1889), pp. 70-73, no. 53.

American Art Galleries, The Collection of a Connoisseur: Art Treasures Collected by the Late Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1910), no. 367(2).

Jane Horswell, Bronze Sculpture of Les Animaliers: Reference and Price Guide (Clopton, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1971), cf. p. 45.

Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1974), p. 59, cat. F9.

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes from the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (October 29, 1975), lot 131.

Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), p. 97, fig. 85.

Sotheby’s, Nineteenth Century Ceramics and Silver, Animalier Bronzes, Continental Bronzes and Sculpture, Clocks and Furniture (November 7, 1985), lot 263.

Sladmore Gallery, Myth, Monument and Menagerie: The Sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye (London: Sladmore Gallery, 1990), p. 26, no. 11.

Édith Mannoni, Barye (Paris: Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1996), pp. 88-89.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), pp. 76-77, cat. F10.

Ownership History

Sold, Sotheby's, London, 7 November 1985, lot 263, to Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.