Al Barye 51795-1875) Senegal Elephant

Antoine-Louis Barye born September 24, 1795 in Paris and died in the same city on June 25, 1975 is a French sculptor and painter Antoine-Louis Barye is a French sculptor and painter already very renowned during his lifetime, best known for his sculptures he is considered by many to be the greatest animal sculptor of the 19th century. Coming from a family of goldsmith craftsmen, he studied engraving from his adolescence and later studied at the Royal School of Fine Arts, then painting at the Barbizon school. Having the animal as his favorite subject even if he sometimes chooses mythological subjects, he opened his own foundry at the end of the 1830s. Louis-Philippe, and exhibited at the Louvre and was a great success at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 thanks to his very naturalized vein sculpture Jaguar devouring a hare. Coming from a family background very favorable to the practice of engraving and sculpture, Antoine-Louis Barye began his apprenticeship as a teenager in the workshop of the metal engraver, Fourier, then became in 1916 the pupil of the sculptor Bosio and the painter Antoine-Jean Gros the following year. Classically trained, Antoine-Louis Barye then preferred to devote himself to animal subjects, he used to go and observe at the Natural History Museum and the Jardin des Plantes. He thus moves away from classicism to approach romantic realism, his sculptures embodying animals often in action with great precision. All the museums in the world have works by Barye