Sculptor famous for his animalistic sculptures.
Best known for his bronzes of big cats, the Walking Tigre and Walking Lion are two of his most famous works.
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Biography:
Antoine-Luis Barye was born in Paris, the 24th September 1795, city where he spent all his life. Still very young, he begins with Fourier, a steel engraver that made molds used for the metal parts of the uniforms of the Big Army, and he starts to study the treatment of metal becoming a unique engraver. He joins the School of Fine Arts in 1818, where he receives a classical formation in the workshop of the sculptor Bosio and the painter Gros. It is in 1831 when he makes himself known to the public with his exhibition in the Hall of "Tigre dévorant un gavial", revolutionary and expressive work, which classifies him immediately as the first romantic sculptor, alter ego of Delacroix in painting. Since that moment he doesnt stop producing masterpieces, often in small dimensions, that will enrich the collections of the offices of enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic.
Breaking up completely with the defenders of the Great Art that reign over the Institute at the time, Barye opens a foundation and he himself spreads his own production using the modern techniques of his time. His republican ideas dont prevent him from joining Ferdinand-Philippe of Orleans, for whom he makes a centrepiece, masterpiece of the decorative arts of the time. These republican ideas dont prevent him either from becoming the nearly official sculptor of Napoleon III, under whose reigned he will create wonderful works such as La Paix, La Force, La Guerre and LOrdre for the decoration of the new Louvre, le Napoleón Ier dAjaccio, and a huge equestrian statue that represents Napoleon III, for the entrance of the Louvre.
His life is very well documented in his following works:
The Barye Bronzes. A Catalogue Raisonne, de Stuart Pivar
Barye, de Alfred Saunier
Sculpture by Antoine Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, de Jeanne Wasserman
Barye, de Charles De Kay
Barye, de Le Musée du Lourve
The Animaliers, de James Mackay
Animals in bronze, de Christopher Payne
Bronzes of the 19th Century, de Pierre Kjellberg
Les Animaliers, de Jane Horswell
A.L. Barye, de Arsene Alexandre
L´Oeuvre de Barye, de Roger Ballu
Dictionnaire des Peintres et Sculpteurs, de E. Benezit
Dictionnaire de Sculpteurs de l´école Francaise, de Stanaslas
Antoine Louis Barye Sculptor of Romantic Realism, de Glenn F Benge
BARYE Catalogue Raisonne des Sculptures, de Michel Poletti y Alain Richarme
Antoine Louis Barye The Corcoran Collection, de Lilien F. Robinson y Edward J. Nygren
Better known for his bronzes of large felines, "The Walking Tiger", and "The Walking Lion" are two of his most famous works. These two works were made in two different sizes, being the one we can admire here the smallest one.
