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CHIEVELEY HOUSE, BERKSHIRE: THE PROPERTY OF MR. AND MRS. NICHOLAS STANLEY (LOTS 1 - 99)

ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)

Two models of lions, entitled Lion assis (No 1)

Details

ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Two models of lions, entitled Lion assis (No 1)
each signed 'BARYE', on fixed grey-veined white marble plinths
bronze, gilt
14 3/16 in. (36.1 cm.) high
17 in. (43 cm.) high; 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) wide; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) deep, overall
(2)Conceived 1846.
These casts circa 1876, and later gilt.

Provenance

The Collection of Alice Tully, New York; sold Christie's, New York, 26 October 1994, lot 99.

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Lot Essay

Alice Bigelow Tully (1902-1993) was an American heiress and great patron of the arts. Born to State Senator William J. Tully, she eventually inherited the fortune of her maternal grandfather Amory Houghton Jr., the heir to the Corning Glass Works. Much of her income was donated to arts institutions, albeit modestly and anonymously. It was only due to John D. Rockefeller III's insistence that she agreed for her new chamber music hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to be eventually named the Alice Tully Hall in 1969.

Please see S. Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Suffolk, England, 1974, pp. 40, 126, cat. A41 for another example.

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