Seated Boar

Description This boar may have been inspired by a Hellenistic marble of the same subject in the Uffizi Museum, Florence. A well-known copy of the marble was made by Pietro Tacca (1577-1640) for the fountain of the Mercato Nuovo, Florence. Although Barye usually had his sculptures edited, or cast, in multiples, this statuette appears to be unique. It has been treated as a pair and mounted on a similar, marble base with Walters 27.33.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
3/05/2002	Treatment	cleaned
1/18/2007	Technical Report	X-ray fluorescence

Exhibitions

• 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 William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] Cold stamped in individual block letters on edge of base near left foreleg: BARYE.

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters