Juno with Her Peacock, model c. 1840, cast after 1855

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 8

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 28 x 38 x 15.1 cm (11 x 14 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston

Accession Number

1986.61.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

incised into model on left front of base (enhanced after casting): BARYE

Provenance

Private collection, Geneva; (art dealer, Geneva); sold by 1986 to (Pegasus Fine Arts, New York);[1] purchased 24 October 1986 by NGA.

[1] Letter to the author dated 14 November 1990 from the late Joseph J. Wade, Pegasus Fine Arts (in NGA curatorial files). The dealer in Geneva had the sculpture on consignment.

Associated Names

Pegasus Fine Arts
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Unknown Dealer

Bibliography

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: 42-45, color repro.