15929957820001312637261000Standard Recordobject-13763170197579118315843736090001701975718183fitz-onlineadlib-object-13763https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137631fb1b056-f20e-3bde-8e48-33a4cc87a8705referenceterm-98228adlib-term-982283d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5csculpturereferenceterm-113901adlib-term-113901a5eb92ca-9324-3784-b828-4c5faa25c507Boscawen CollectionDepthcm6Heightcm15Widthcm16.8Sculpturereferenceterm-115adlib-term-11594d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8NatureApplied ArtsBronze, castM.6-19971accession numberM.6-199713763priref13763old object numberB.5.external IDCAM_CCF_M_6_1997urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13763https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13763referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumBequeathed by Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC, in his memory.referenceagent-157206adlib-agent-1572069c491bd8-2ff0-3a57-a268-d66bd5868b26Sherek, Pamela199519951995bequeathedEntry date: 1997-01-2018501850CE1850circa1850190011900CE19001900aftersculptorreferenceagent-8007adlib-agent-8007b9847a81-d5e5-3e2c-b666-4612f3341f31Barye, Antoine LouisDubbed the ‘Michelangelo of the Menagerie’ by art critic Théophile Gautier (1811–72), Barye was a Romantic realist artist based in Paris who popularised the genre of animal sculpture from the 1830s onwards. Animals were very low down in the traditional Academic hierarchy of accepted subject-matter for artists, and the term animalier (an artist specialising in animals) was coined by critics specifically for Barye as a pejorative appellation. Barye was a successful monumental sculptor, but also created hundreds of small-scale models of animals for reproduction in bronze editions for middle-class homes. His last sales catalogue of 1865 listed over 230 compositions available to order as edition bronze statuettes. Keen for accuracy, Barye studied ancient animal sculptures as well as live beasts in the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle’s menagerie, copied zoological specimens in the Musée d’Anatomie Comparée and made anatomical drawings of dead lions. Bayre’s animal portraits include single animal figures (e.g. M.19-2015) and groups of predators with prey, or in combat with each other (e.g. M.1-2015), and some with human figures (e.g. M.5-2015).referenceterm-118652adlib-term-1186525a255bf0-199c-337e-ae02-4096e18f0ccf19th Century, second half#referenceterm-39741adlib-term-3974147d44741-af05-37c3-b21e-0e278b114f3bcopper alloyreferenceterm-40365adlib-term-40365d79c75c2-da7b-3187-918e-f7a374e04005bronzeHeightcm14.0referenceterm-110277adlib-term-11027797f1ad1c-7b1d-373a-b0ae-ed010d95f37banimal figurehistory notePurchased in 1949 by Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC (1892-1958); his sister, the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherekreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreference numberliteralnameSculpture UKSculpture UKPubl. Mentioned, offprint, pp. i-vi, on p. v, no. 49. (In magazine p. 911)p. 911referencepublication-200000521adlib-publication-20000052122596849-c5ed-3f03-8765-280367839585The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgereferenceterm-12635adlib-term-12635b2a50f8a-9185-337e-be03-f4ae1f56ca60Animalieranimalreferenceterm-7450adlib-term-745020a34376-a37c-32b7-86e6-ae1ffed3b8dbcamelliteralcamelcamelreferenceterm-110277adlib-term-11027797f1ad1c-7b1d-373a-b0ae-ed010d95f37banimal figureanimal figurebronze, cast, patinatedreferenceterm-26699adlib-term-26699a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8casting (process)referenceterm-116050adlib-term-116050b9d5e94b-6fe6-3ae7-a49d-d3df90ec8d02patinationCamelobject
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