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BARYE, Antoine-Louis

Paris 1795 - Paris 1875

Maker: Barbedienne

Python avalant une biche

Python Swallowing a Doe

model 1840, cast possibly 1876-1914

bronze

group

Dimensions (HxWxD): 3 38 x 13 1116 x 4 34 in.

incised, probably in foundry model, on plinth by front left hoof of doe: BARYE
incised, probably in foundry model, on edge of plinth: F.BARBEDIENNE.FONDEUR.
inset, on plinth by curve of python's tail, a gold foundry cachet: F.B.
incised on underside: 43
previous incision surmounted by stamped horizontal: 6

Acc. No.: 1995.75.5

Credit Line: Gift of Lisa and Leonard Baskin

Photo credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Provenance

  • mid-1960s, New York, Art market
  • New York, F. Gorevic & Son, Inc.
  • 1965-1970, sold to Lisa and Leonard Baskin, Leeds, Massachusetts (letter of 22 June 1996 from Charles Gorevic to Anne Halpern (in NGA curatorial files)
  • 1995, Gift of Lisa and Leonard Baskin to the NGA

Bibliography

  • Museum's website, 9 March 2012
  • 2000 Butler and Lindsay
    Ruth Butler, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000, p. 34-42, color repr.