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Antoine Louis Barye
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This portrait bust depicts Barye, a favorite sculptor of William T. Walters. The Walters Art Museum holds many hundreds of examples of Barye's sculptures of animals as well as sketches, studies, watercolors and oils.
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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.
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. |
| 1980-1981 | The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North American Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis. |
| 1889-1890 | The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York. |
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 24 x W: 15 1/2 x D: 10 13/16 in. (60.96 x 39.37 x 27.52 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters (?)
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
27.416