Lot 162
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ANTOINE LOUIS BARYE (French, 1796-1875)

Details
ANTOINE LOUIS BARYE (French, 1796-1875)

'Piqueur en costume Louis XV', A Bronze Model of a Huntsman

inscribed 'BARYE', stamped underneath '685' and paper label '20.321'
7¾in. (19.7cm.) high, reddish brown patina
Provenance
Barye Atelier sale (Catalogue des Oeuvres de fue Barye...); Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 7-12, 1876, lot 685
Goupil et cie, Paris
Literature
G. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye, Sculptor of Romantic Realism, University Park, 1984, pp. 91, 92, fig. 80

Lot Essay

This master model (together with the plaster with which it was sold in 1876, now at the Louvre) are superbly cast and chased with jewel-like sensitivity. The plugs, sockets and pins show the high technical mastery of this artisan's proof.