Cheval Turk

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1850/1900

Antoine Louis Barye (French, 1795–1875)

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

Artist: Antoine Louis Barye
Title: Cheval Turk
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.: 1850–1900
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 27.9 × 45.1 cm (11 × 17 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Arthur Rubloff
Reference Number: 1996.602
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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. 321 (65).
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum Handbooks, 1982), pp. 52-55.
Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), p. 93, fig. 82.
Elizabeth W. Harter and Laurence Pamer, “Individuality: Barye’s Aesthetic of the Particular,” in Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, edited by Lilien F. Robinson and Edward J. Nygren (Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988), p. 19.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), pp. 267-69, cat. A129 or A130.

Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1996.

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