ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)

Tigre dévorant un gavial, seconde réduction (Tiger devouring a gavial, second reduction)

Details

ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Tigre dévorant un gavial, seconde réduction (Tiger devouring a gavial, second reduction)
signed and dated very faintly BARYE/1836, the underside with red paint number 1069 and with further indistinct red paint and black ink numerals, on a griotte marble plinth, the underside with paper label printed Collextion FAURE
bronze, dark-brown patina with mid-brown highlights and touches of verdigris
4¼ in. (10.7 cm.) high, excluding plinth

Provenance

Jean-Baptiste Faure Collection

Literature

Poletti & Richarme, 2000, no. A74(3)

Lot Essay

See note to previous lot. A quarter of the size of the original Salon model, the second reduction of Tigre dévorant un gavial dates from 1836, as illustrated by the year faintly inscribed on the present épreuve.

See lot 7 for a note on the celebrated collector, Jean-Baptiste Faure.

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