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Antoine-Louis Barye

Eagle, Wings Outspread, Beak Closed

1856-1930

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Antoine-Louis Barye

Eagle, Wings Outspread, Beak Closed

1856-1930

Physical Qualities Bronze, brown-black patina, 11-3/16 H x 12-5/8 L x 11 D in.
Credit Line Gift from the Descendants of Marian and Sidney Lansburgh
Object Number 1998.117
Eagle, wings outspread, head turned slightly to proper right, beak closed, perched on a rocky mound. Base: irregular round rocky mound with rim.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; from Richard Lansburgh, Baltimore; estate of his mother, Marian Lansburgh (née Epstein), Baltimore; from her father, Jacob Epstein, Baltimore
Pivar 168, p. 219

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, "Barye Catalogue Raisonné des Sculptures," Paris: Gallimard, 2000, pl. 337, p. 330.

Lillian M. Burgunder, "Antoine-Louis Barye Sculptures and Decorative Objects in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," September 2006, p. 145.

Inscribed: In red: 8943 (set with wax)

Artist

Antoine-Louis Barye

1795–1874

French, 1796-1875
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