Walking Lion After Al Barye (1795-1875) Bronze Cast Iron Barbedienne.

Walking lion after AL Barye bronze with brown patina signed BARYE marked on the terrace F Barbedienne Fondeur. very pretty cast iron and very beautiful patina sand cast around 1880 marked under the terrace 43 and number at the anchor 8999. Antoine-Louis Barye born September 24, 1795 in Paris and died in the same city on June 25, 1975 is a sculptor and a French painter Antoine-Louis Barye is a French sculptor and painter already very renowned during his lifetime, especially known for his animal sculptures. He is considered by many to be the greatest animal sculptor of the 19th century. Coming from a family of artisan goldsmiths , he studied engraving from his adolescence and later studied at the Royal School of Fine Arts, then painting at the Barbizon school. Having animals as his favorite subject, even if he sometimes chose mythological subjects, he opened his own foundry at the end of the 1830s. During his lifetime, he received official orders, notably from Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans, Napoleon III, and Louis-Philippe, and exhibited at the Louvre and achieved great success at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 thanks to his very naturalized vein sculpture Jaguar devouring a hare. Coming from a family environment very favorable to the practice of engraving and sculpture, Antoine-Louis Barye began his apprenticeship in his adolescence in the workshop of the metal engraver, Fourier, then in 1916 became a student 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 move closer to romantic realism, his sculptures embodying animals often in action with great precision. All museums in the world have works by Barye