ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)

Basset assis, poils longs, tête tournée à gauche (Seated basset, long coat, head turned to left)

細節

ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Basset assis, poils longs, tête tournée à gauche (Seated basset, long coat, head turned to left)
signed BARYE, the underside of the belly stamped 111, the underside of the base with paper inventory label printed 89
bronze, dark-brown patina with mid-brown highlights
5 3/16 in. (13.1 cm.) high

出版

Poletti & Richarme, 2000, no. A31, p. 152

拍品專文

Émile Martin's accounts record that, whilst eleven épreuves of the short-haired seated basset were sold between 1850 and 1857, only four casts of the long-haired model found buyers, suggesting it to be the rarer of the two versions.