Emile Diaz, Son of the Painter

1850/75

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

Artist: Antoine Louis Barye
Title: Emile Diaz, Son of the Painter
Origin: France
Date: 1850–1875
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Mark: the signature "Barye" appears underneath the shoulder of the relief profile The name, "EMILE", proper right edge, side of back of head profile.
Dimensions: diameter: 38.1 cm (15 in.); depth: 5.8 cm (2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Arthur Rubloff
Reference Number: 1988.36.4

Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1974), pp. 46, 243, cat. R6.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes From the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (October 29, 1975), lot 146.
Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), fig. 52.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 450, cat. CS 121.

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

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