ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)

Jaguar dévorant un crocodile (Jaguar devouring a crocodile)

Details
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Jaguar dévorant un crocodile (Jaguar devouring a crocodile)
signed BARYE, on a griotte marble plinth, the underside with label printed COLLEXTION FAURE
bronze, dark-brown/rust patina
3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm.) high, excluding plinth
Provenance
Jean-Baptiste Faure Collection
Literature
Poletti & Richarme, 2000, no. A98, p. 238

Lot Essay

Poletti and Richarme estimate the total number of lifetime épreuves of this model, offered from 1862, to be less than thirty. After 1876, the work was edited by Barbedienne until the mid-1920s.

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

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