Details
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1796-1875)
Éléphant d'Afrique (African elephant)
signed 'BARYE' (to top of base), on later wooden plinth with glass case
plaster, wax
53⁄4 in. (14.6 cm.) high, 81⁄2 in. (21.6 cm.) wide, 27⁄8 in. (7.3 cm.) deep
Executed circa 1857.
Provenance
Collection Schoeller.
Collection Lafarge, Paris.
Acquired from Univers du Bronze, Paris.
Literature
A. Richarme & M. Poletti, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures, Paris, 2000, p. 248, cat. A116 (illustrated).
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