Walking Lion (with Rectangular Plinth) Antoine-louis Barye (1795–1875)

A beautiful antique cast from the Barye studio, circa 1862.
Bronze with an antique green and brown patina, richly contrasted.
Signed "BARYE" on the terrace in front of the rightfore leg.
First edition, circa 1840. Inscriptions beneath the pedestal.
H. 23 cm; W. 41.5 cm

Known examples:
Baltimore, Museum of Art
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum
Bayonne, Bonnat-Helleu Museum
Bordeaux, Museum of Decorative Arts
Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum
Dijon, Museum of Fine Arts
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum
London, Victoria and Albert Museum
Newark, Newark Museum
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Bibliography :
Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye : Sculptor of Romanticism, 1984, ill. 66.
Jane Horswell, Bronze Sculpture of 'Les Animaliers', 1971, p. 68.
Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes : A Catalogue Raisonné, 1974, A 48.
Roger Ballu, L'Œuvre de Barye, 1890, (pp.130–131).

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