ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Excluding his later Basset anglais Nos1 and 2 (see previous lot), Barye offered five versions of Basset, all modelled in 1841. Eduardo Guinle's collection includes examples of four of these models, offered in the following five lots.
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)

Basset assis, poils ras, tête tournée à droite (Seated basset, short coat, head turned to right)

細節
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Basset assis, poils ras, tête tournée à droite (Seated basset, short coat, head turned to right)
signed BARYE, the underside with underlined black ink number 1559
bronze, green/reddish-brown patina
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
出版
Poletti & Richarme, 2000, no. A32, p. 152

拍品專文

The two Basset assis models, one with short-haired coat, the other with long (see following lot), were conceived by Barye as a pair and first offered as such in Besse's 1844 catalogue. Neither model was edited in great number during Barye's lifetime, and at the 1876 Atelier sale, the bronze and plaster modèles for each were acquired by Goupil and subsequently edited with great success by Barbedienne.