General Bonaparte on Horseback, model c. 1838, cast after 1847

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 8

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 37.5 x 33 x 13.4 cm (14 3/4 x 13 x 5 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1980.44.3

Artists / Makers

Antoine-Louis Barye (artist) French, 1795 - 1875

Image Use

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Inscription

incised into model on top of base behind left rear leg of horse: BARYE

Provenance

Bernard Black and Hugues-W. Nadeau, New York and Europe; (their sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 3 December 1971, no. 51); purchased by (Lock Galleries, New York) for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[1] gift 1980 to NGA.

[1] Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye. The Bernard Black - Hugues Nadeau Collection, 3 December 1971, no. 51, repro. and cover in color (in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Black, Bernard
Lock Galleries
Mellon, Paul
Nadeau, Hugues-W.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

Exhibition History

1974: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 25, repro.

2000: Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 27-30, color repro.

2000: Poletti, Michel, and Alain Richarme. Barye: catalogue raisonné des sculptures. Paris, 2000: 62, under no. F1.