About This Artwork
Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875
Equestrienne in Renaissance Dressc. 1840
Bronze
39.4 x 36.5 x 13 cm (15 1/2 x 14 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Marks: The artist's name "BARYE" has been handwritten into the original cast and appears on the proper left front of the self base. "2 MIROU" and "356" has been handpainted underneath the base, and a paper label with "710" handwritten on it is adhered to the bottom of the base.
Bequest of Arthur Rubloff, 1989.151
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
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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
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. 360 (8).
Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1974), p. 56, cat. F6.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes From the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (October 29, 1975), lot 139.
Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), pp. 101-02, fig. 87.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 67, cat. F4.
Ownership History
American Art Association, New York, by 1921 [according to 1975 Sotheby's sale cat.]. Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (d. 1973), Madison, New Jersey, by 1973; sold, her estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 29 October 1975, lot 139, to Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1989.