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"Surtout de table": Wild Bull Hunt

Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795 - 1875) (Artist)
1834-1838
bronze lost-wax cast with brown varnish patina over yellow bronze with minute traces of gilding
(18th and 19th Centuries )

Sixteenth-century Spanish hunters armed with spears and accompanied by dogs attack a wild bull. It is a dangerous pursuit, and one of the men has fallen backward over his collapsed horse. The dogs are in peril as well. Barye had access to the duke of Orléans's extensive library containing books devoted to history and travel. It was from such sources that he might have derived inspiration for his subjects. This unique lost-wax cast originally was placed next to the plinth carrying the central "Tiger Hunt" (Walters 27.176) in the Duke d'Orleans' celebrated table centre-piece.

Inscription

[Signature and Date] Cast through from model: BARYE / 1838; [Transcription] Inscribed on base: BRONZE D'UN SEUL JET SANS CISELURE coule a l'hotel d'Angevilliers par honore Gonon / et ses deux fils 1838; [Translation] Inscribed on base: Only bronze cast without carving cast at the Hotel D'Angevilliers by Honoré Gonon and his two sons 1838

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.

Duc d'Orléans, 1834, by commission; duchesse d'Orléans [date of acquisition unknown], by inheritance; duchesse d'Orléans Sale, January 18-20, 1853, no. 3 or 4; Lutteroth [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Georges Petit [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, April 29, 1885, by purchase [George A. Lucas and Montaignac as agents]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Exhibitions

2014-2016 From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
2007-2008 Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach.
1998-2001 Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
1991 Un âge d'or des arts décoratifs: 1814-1848. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris.
1889-1890 The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York.
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Geographies

France, Paris (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 18 1/16 × W: 25 9/16 × D: 11 5/8 in. (45.8 × 65 × 29.5 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by William T. Walters, 1885

Location in Museum

Hackerman House at 1 West Mount Vernon Place: First Floor: Parlor

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

27.178

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