Turtle

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1820

Antoine Louis Barye
French, 1795-1875

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

Artist: Antoine Louis Barye
Title: Turtle
Place: France (Object made in)
Date: 1815–1825
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Marks: artist's signature "Barye" is on the proper left side, below turtles shell. The number "536" has been painted underneath the base of the object.
Dimensions: 4.4 × 13.3 × 9.2 cm (1 3/4 × 5 1/4 × 3 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Arthur Rubloff
Reference Number: 1988.36.6
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Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1974), p. 235, cat. A193.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes from the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (October 29, 1975), lot 122.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 348, cat. A207(1).

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

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