Barye Antoine Louis 1795-1875 Bonze Doe And Fawn Barbedienne Founder

Doe and fawn in bronze with a brown-black patina signed on the terrace brand f.barbedienne, sand cast around 1880 Antoine-Louis Barye born September 24, 1795 in Paris and died in the same city on June 25, 1875 is a French sculptor and painter Antoine-Louis Barye is a French sculptor and painter who was 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 goldsmith artisans, he studied engraving from his adolescence and later studied at the École Royale des Beaux-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 was a great success at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 thanks to his very naturalized 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 in his adolescence in the workshop of the metal engraver, Fourier, then became the student of the sculptor Bosio in 1916 and the painter Antoine-Jean Gros the following year. Classically trained, Antoine-Louis Barye then preferred to devote himself to animal subjects, he was in the habit of going to observe at the Museum of Natural History and the Jardin des Plantes. He thus moved away from classicism to approach romantic realism, his sculptures often embodying animals in action with great precision. All the museums in the world have works by Barye.