Jaguar dévorant un agouti (Jaguar devouring an agouti)

Details

ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Jaguar dévorant un agouti (Jaguar devouring an agouti)
signed BARYE, the underside with scratched S.P.A. and partially effaced red paint S.P.A. and museum accession number 20.985
bronze, dark-brown/red patina
2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Samuel P. Avery and by descent to Samuel P. Avery jr.

Literature

Poletti & Richarme, 2000, no. A97, p. 237.

Special notice

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Lot Essay

Although offered from 1845, Poletti and Richarme estimate the number of lifetime épreuves of Jaguar dévorant un agouti to be no more than twenty. The model was listed as an esquisse for Jaguar dévorant un lièvre (see lots 223-4), dating from 1850. The model was edited posthumously by Brame.

Another cast of this model, formerly in the collection of Eduardo Guinle (d. 1941), was sold in these rooms, 25 April 2003, lot 129 ($3,345).

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