Rearing Bull

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.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
3/05/2002	Treatment	cleaned
4/26/2005	Technical Report	X-ray fluorescence

Exhibitions

• The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York. 1889-1890.
• Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach. 2007-2008.

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