Python and a Gnu

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Cast c. 1934/35

Antoine Louis Barye (French, 1795–1875)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Antoine Louis Barye
Title: Python and a Gnu
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Cast 1930–1940
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Inscribed: Barye and Tiffany & Co.
Dimensions: 26.8 × 40.1 × 19.7 cm (10 9/16 × 15 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1984.35
IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.: https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/102106/manifest.json

Charles DeKay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor (New York: Barye Monument Association, 1889), pp. 54, 111.
Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1974), pp. 14-15, 238, cat. A199.
Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. 83-85.
Peter Fusco and H. W. Janson, eds., The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980), pp. 131-32.
Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), fig. 96.
Edward J. Nygren, “Barye’s Dramas of Animal Passions,” Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, edited by Lilien F. Robinson and Edward J. Nygren (Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988), pp. 34-35.
Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, La griffe et la dent, Antoine Louise Barye (1795–1875) sculpteur animalier (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996), pp. 53-57.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 355, cat. A16.

George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, by 1939; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1984.

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email . Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.

Suggested Terms

Currently Off View

Date:

Artist:

About this artwork

Status

Department

Artist

Title

Place

Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Medium

Inscriptions

Dimensions

Credit Line

Reference Number

IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.

Extended information about this artwork

Publication History

Provenance

Share

Explore Further

Sign up for our enewsletter to receive updates.

Gallery actions

Image actions

Share

IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world.

Learn more.