Sculpture - " Sont Ils Gentis ", Alfred Barye (1839-1895) - Bronze

Bronze sculpture representing the King's Jester , comic character , by Alfred Barye .
Bronze with nuanced brown patina .
The Jester is dressed in his traditional costume , he is accompanied by a costumed learned monkey and a hound wearing a large feather necklace .
A marotte wearing a hood with bells , serving as an attribute of the court jesters , holds a cartouche titled "Sont ils Gentis" (Are they nice)  .
Signature of the sculptor "A. BARYE", hollow , on the naturalist terrace , richly decorated .
Old edition bronze , period second part of the 19th century .
Very good state of conservation and patina .

Sizes : 40 cm x 23 cm

Alfred Barye (1839-1895)

Alfred Barye , renowned French sculptor , known as "the Son", or "Alf Barye", born in Paris on January 21, 1839 .

Alfred Barye was a pupil of his father , the sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875) .
He trained and worked in his father's workshop and foundry .
His work includes animal bronzes as well as orientalist and comic subjects .
He exhibited at the Salon from 1864 to 1882 .

The works of Alfred Barye show a very high degree of detail , execution and finish , equal to the works of his father .
Alfred Barye realizes the "Arab Rider on Horseback" with the collaboration of Emile Coriolan Guillemin (1841-1907).
He died on May 13 , 1895 , in Paris .