Basset debout, tête tournée à droite, second modèle (Standing basset, head turned to right, second model)

Details

ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Basset debout, tête tournée à droite, second modèle (Standing basset, head turned to right, second model)
signed BARYE, the underside twice scratched S.P.A. and with red paint museum accession number 20.984
bronze, dark-brown/red patina
6 3/16 in. (15.7 cm.) high

Provenance

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

Literature

Poletti & Richarme, 2000, no. A34, pp. 153-4.

Special notice

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Lot Essay

Barye offered five different versions of Basset, all of them modelled in 1841. The present version was offered from 1845 as the pendant to Basset debout, tête tournée à gauche. Lifetime casts of both models were few in number, and after 1876, the right-facing version was edited by the Graux-Marly foundry.

Another cast of this model, formerly in the collection of Eduardo Guinle (d. 1841), was sold in these rooms, 25 April 2003, lot 46 ($13,145).

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