Panther Seizing a Stag

modeled c. 1833 (cast 1889)

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795–1875

Artist: Antoine Louis Barye
Title: Panther Seizing a Stag
Origin: France
Date: 1826–1838
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Signed right: BARYE. Marked base front, right of center: Exposition Universelle, 1889, Paris Marked rear left: F. Barbedienne, Fondeur.
Dimensions: 36.8 × 53.3 × 22.1 cm (14 1/2 × 21 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Hyman
Reference Number: 1975.199

Louise D’Argencourt and Douglas Druick, The Other Nineteenth Century: Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Tanenbaum (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1978), p. 202.
Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), fig. 133.
Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères, 150 Years of Sculpture (Paris: Susse Frères, 1992), pp. 33, 213, 299, 343.
Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, La griffe et la dent, Antoine Louise Barye (1795–1875) sculpteur animalier (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996), pp. 48-49.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 216, cat. A81(2).
Musée des Arts décoratifs de Bordeaux, Autour de Barye et de Pompon: Sculptures animalières des XIX et XX siècles (Bordeaux: Musée des Arts décoratifs de Bordeaux, 2002), p. 21, cf. 1.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections,” 22 July - 8 October 1972 [no cat.].

Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Hyman, Chicago, by 1971; loaned to the Art Institute, 1971; given to the Art Institute, 1975.

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