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GOLD INITIAL CAST BY BARBEDIENNE FROM THE MODEL BY ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875), LATE 19TH CENTURY

Eléphant du Sénégal (Elephant of Senegal)

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GOLD INITIAL CAST BY BARBEDIENNE FROM THE MODEL BY ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875), LATE 19TH CENTURY
Eléphant du Sénégal (Elephant of Senegal)
The naturalistic separately cast base signed Barye, inscribed Barbedienne Fondeur and with gold F.B. initials, the underside numbered 676, stamped FF, inscribed 44 and with ink inscribed 7262 and indistinct SvR.al
green patinated bronze
14 cm. high

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Lot Essay

A late model, almost certainly dating from the early 1870s, Eléphant du Sénégal is the last and most dynamic of Barye's four elephant studies. Cast in very limited numbers prior to Barye's death, the model and its reduced version (after 1887) were subsequently edited repeatedly and with great success by Barbedienne.

Another example is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 70.

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