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The Hand of Antoine-Louis Barye
(18th and 19th Centuries )
George A. Lucas, William Walters' art agent in Paris, delivered a plaster cast of the sculptor Antoine Louis Barye's hand to the artist and Barye collector Léon Bonnat in April 1897. The following November, Lucas urged Bonnat to paint the image of the cast onto this partially cleaned palette. Lucas assembled a collection of more than seventy palettes, the majority of which are now at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The cast of the hand is preseved in the Musee Bonnat, Bayonne (no. 461).
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; 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. |
| 1979 | A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, 1860-1909. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 1/12/1966 | Treatment | examined for technical study |
| 11/4/1994 | Examination | examined for loan |
| 1/30/2007 | Examination | examined for condition |
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
14 x 10 3/4 x 5/8 in. (35.56 x 27.31 x 1.59 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry 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.
37.595