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Tartar Warrior Checking His Horse
(18th and 19th Centuries )
An Asian warrior, identified in some early literature as "Tartar" and in other publications as "Chinese," violently reins in his horse. He wears plate and chain-mail armor over fur outerwear. What sources Barye consulted in depicting such an exotic subject have yet to be determined. Very few casts of this sculpture were issued during Barye's lifetime, but even rarer are those with pedestals decorated with "Byzantine"-style interlace designs (Walters 27.124).
Inscription
Provenance
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William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 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. |
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
20 x 17 3/8 x 10 3/4 in. (50.8 x 44.13 x 27.31 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
27.123
