ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (1795-1875)

ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (1795-1875)
Jaguar devouring a crocodile
Bronze with contrasting brown patina
Signed without founder's stamp
Possibly cast from a model created around 1862
Bronze with brown patina, signed with no foundry mark, possibly anthumous cast after the model created in 1862
Long. 24 cm - 9 1/2 in.

Provenance
Private collection, France (by descent)

Bibliography
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye, Catalogue raisonné des sculptures, Paris: Gallimard, 2000, described and reproduced under reference A 98, p. 238 (another copy)

Related works
- Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875), Jaguar devouring a crocodile, brown patina bronze, signed without founder's stamp, length 24.5 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Bequest Thomy-Thiéry, OA 5756
- Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875), Jaguar devouring a crocodile, brown patina bronze, signed without founder's stamp, length 24.5 cm, Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, 27.91

Note
In their book on Barye, Poletti and Richarme state that F. Barbedienne's posthumous print is the actual edition, and that this model is rarely found in period castings. Thus, according to them, over a fifteen-year period during the sculptor's lifetime, "fewer than thirty or so proofs were probably cast."