Ten-Point Stag Brought Down by Two Scotch Hounds, model n.d., cast possibly c. 1857/1873

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Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 43.18 × 55.88 × 30.48 cm (17 × 22 × 12 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

Accession Number

2015.19.3846

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Provenance

Purchased 1873 from the artist by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The sculpture is one of 116 bronzes acquired in two groups directly from the artist, one in 1873 and the other in 1874. According to the Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the group acquired in 1873 was selected for the Corcoran by William T. Walters, the prominent Baltimore collector and a Corcoran trustee, "in company with Barye." (See: "Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art," 1873-1946, Record Group 5.1 [COR.0005.1.RG], Gallery registrar's office records, 1869-2007, Series 1: Accessions 1869- [inclusive], Special Collections Research Center, George Washington University Libraries, Washington, DC; accessed on-line 30 November 2016: https://archive.org/details/corcregisterofbronzes).

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1978: Antoine Louis Barye: A Selection of Bronzes from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 July - 20 September 1978.

1988: Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 1988-1990, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1975: Cooper, Jeremy. Nineteenth Century Romantic Bronzes. Boston, 1975: 132-133, pl. 136.

2000: Poletti, Michel, and Alain Richarme. Barye: catalogue raisonné des sculptures. Paris, 2000: 288, under A148.