Description
Although Barye preferred wild animals over farm animals as subjects, he created several sculptures of powerful bulls during the early 1840s. They may have been related to the half-man, half-bull monster in his famous neoclassical statue Theseus and the Minotaur of 1842.
Provenance
Sichel Sale, no. 11; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1886, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] Cold stamped (appears to be stamped three times in same spot with E misaligned): BARYE 1; [Number] Painted in white inside base: W 97
Credit
Acquired by William T. Walters, 1886