Lion of the July Column

1836

Antoine-Louis Barye

Sculptor, French, 1795 - 1875

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G8

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tinted terracotta

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21 x 40.5 x 5.2 cm (8 1/4 x 15 15/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
    framed: 37 x 58.5 x 4.8 cm (14 9/16 x 23 1/16 x 1 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.62.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Anonymous dealer); (Heim Gallery, London);[1] sold 1969 to Asbjorn R. Lunde [1927-2017], New York; gift 1984 to NGA.
[1] See also the letter from Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki, dated 30 July 1996, to Anne Halpern (in NGA curatorial files); the sculpture was sold to Mr. Lunde from an exhibition at the Heim Gallery. This exhibition is also noted in the index card file of objects sold in the Heim Gallery records, no. W6266-6 (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Heim Gallery Records, accession number 910004, Box 105).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

  • Paintings by Paul Huet (1803-1869) and Some Contemporary French Sculpture, Heim Gallery, London, 1969, no. 127.

Bibliography

1969

  • Paintings by Paul Huet (1803-1869) and Some Contemporary French Sculpture. Exh. cat. Heim Gallery, London, 1969: no. 127, repro.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 26, 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: 21-25, color repro.

  • Poletti, Michel, and Alain Richarme. Barye: catalogue raisonné des sculptures. Paris, 2000: 414, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q63860704

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