Éléphant du Sénégal (Elephant of Senegal)

细节

ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Éléphant du Sénégal (Elephant of Senegal)
signed BARYE, stamped F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR and with FB gold seal, the underside with incised 6 and with ink number 6248
bronze, dark-brown/rust patina, on wooden plinth
5½ in. (14 cm.) high, excluding plinth

出版

Poletti & Richarme, 2000, no. A119, pp. 250-3.

注意事项

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

拍品专文

Conceived as a pendant to his marginally earlier Éléphant du Cochinchine (see previous lot), Éléphant du Sénégal is the last, most dynamic and most popular of Barye's four elephant studies. Cast in very limited numbers prior to the sculptor's death, the model and its reduced version (after 1887, see lot 238) were subsequently edited repeatedly and with great success by Barbedienne.

Another cast of this model, formerly in the collection of Eduardo Guinle (d. 1941), was sold in these rooms, 25 April 2003, lot 6 ($13,145).