'Elephant de Senegal' - A Bronze Sculpture by Antoine Louis Barye

Object Description

Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875)
‘Éléphant du Sénégal’ (‘Senegalese Elephant’)
Patinated bronze

Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris, from the model by Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875).

Signed ‘BARYE’ and with foundry inscription ‘F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR’. The underside incised ’43’.

Object Literature

M. Poletti & A. Richarme, Barye Catalogue raisonné des sculptures, Paris, 2000, pp. 251-253, A 119.

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