Lot Essay
A drawing for this model is in the collection of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. An example of the work, cast in bronze without the base, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Details
Antoine Louis Barye (French, 1796-1875)
'Hercule emportant un sanglier', A Silver Group of Hercules and the Erymanthean Boar
inscribed 'BARYE'
5in. (12.7cm.) high
'Hercule emportant un sanglier', A Silver Group of Hercules and the Erymanthean Boar
inscribed 'BARYE'
5in. (12.7cm.) high
Literature
S. Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne, Suffolk, 1974, pp. 37, 75, cat. no. F30
H.W. Janson and P. Fusco, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (exhibition catalogue), 1980, pp. 126-127
H.W. Janson and P. Fusco, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (exhibition catalogue), 1980, pp. 126-127