ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)

Kevel (Kevel)

Details

ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Kevel (Kevel)
signed BARYE, the underside incised No637 and with traces of red wax
bronze modèle, dark-brown/red patina
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Vente Barye, hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7-12 February 1876, lot 637 ("modèle en bronze avec son plâtre"), 110 francs, acquired by Alfred Jacquemart, to be edited by F. Barbedienne
Barbedienne Collection
Jacques Zoubaloff Collection, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 16-17 June 1927, lot 166, 7,800 francs

Literature

Poletti & Richarme, 2000, no. A173, p. 318

Exhibited

Exposition des oeuvres d'Antoine-Louis Barye, membre de l'Institut, École des beaux-arts, Paris, May 1889, no. 74

Lot Essay

Dating from the 1830s, Kevel was first offered in Barye's 1857-8 catalogue. After 1876, the model was edited by Barbedienne. The Atelier sale lot number (637) to its underside, and comparison with the illustrated master-bronze in the 1927 Zoubaloff catalogue, irrefutably confirm this épreuve of Kevel to be the modèle. This contradicts the work's entry in Poletti & Richarme's catalogue raisonné, where it is stated that the modèle was acquired by Granville at the Zoubaloff sale and subsequently bequeathed to the musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon.

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