A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'THESEUS SLAYING THE CENTAUR', cast from the model by Antoine-Louis Barye, on a naturalistic rocky base,signed A. L. BARYE and with the foundry inscription F. BARBEDIENNE Fondeur. and with the ink inscription to the underside 8312 ule 550, last quarter 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP ENTITLED 'THESEUS SLAYING THE CENTAUR', cast from the model by Antoine-Louis Barye, on a naturalistic rocky base,signed A. L. BARYE and with the foundry inscription F. BARBEDIENNE Fondeur. and with the ink inscription to the underside 8312 ule 550, last quarter 19th Century
14¾in. (37.5cm.) wide; 16¼in. (41.3cm.) high; 5¼in. (13.3cm.) deep

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Barye originally designed the present model for the Ministry of the Interior in 1849 and exhibited the group in plaster at the salon of 1850. A fifty-inch example, also cast by the Barbedienne Foundry, surmounted the Barye Memorial, erected in 1894 on the Ile de la Cité, indicating the importance of this work in the artist's oeuvre.

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