Antoine-Louis Barye and Brame
Eléphant de Cochinchine
1837-1874
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Bronze, brown patina, Overall: 5 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (14.6 x 24.8 x 8.6 cm.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.46.54
Elephant running with proper right foreleg forward and off the ground, and proper left hind leg back and off the ground. The elephant has large tusks; its trunk is held out front and curled down slightly at tip; its ears are flapping and sharply modeled; tail is straight out with the tip curved slightly down. Base: oval ground with stylized lines; no rim.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; from Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, by gift 1910; from Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George Aloysius Lucas, Paris
Modern French Art
Pivar: A88 (p. 157) 14 x 16 cm. Photo in book: Photograph courtesy of Walters Art Gallery. Note: Tail differs from the book.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, "Barye Catalogue Raisonné des Sculptures," Paris: Gallimard, 2000, pl. 236, p. 250.
Lillian M. Burgunder, "Antoine-Louis Barye Sculptures and Decorative Objects in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," September 2006, p. 107.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, "Barye Catalogue Raisonné des Sculptures," Paris: Gallimard, 2000, pl. 236, p. 250.
Lillian M. Burgunder, "Antoine-Louis Barye Sculptures and Decorative Objects in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," September 2006, p. 107.
Inscribed: Signed on base: 'BARYE'
