Antoine-Louis Barye
Theseus Struggling with the Centaur Bienor (sketch)
1840-1924
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Antoine-Louis Barye
Theseus Struggling with the Centaur Bienor (sketch)
1840-1924
Physical Qualities
Bronze, brown-gold patina, 15 H x 14 L x 4 D in. (without wooden plinth)
Credit Line
Gift from the Descendants of Marian and Sidney Lansburgh
Object Number
1998.113
Theseus is shown astride the Centaur (seated on a cloth that is draped down the centaur's proper right side and through his hind legs) with his (Theseus) proper right arm raised and ready to strike the Centaur with what looks like a small club, while he pushes the Centaur's head away with his proper left hand. The Centaur's head is thrown back over Theseus's proper rith leg, and his proper right hand is gripping Theseus's proper left arm, while he pushes Theseus in the chest with his proper left hand. The Centaur is rearing back with his proper left front leg raised, and proper right hind leg bent and forward; his bushy tail is also raised. The modeling of the muscular figures of man and horse owe much to Greek Hellenistic sculpture. Base: oval rocky ground; no rim with additional oval wooden plinth.
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
Sotheby's, 'European Sculpture & Works of Art 900-1900,' London, July 9, 2002, p. 124, no. 138.
'Old Master Paintings and 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture,' Sale 1579, Sotheby's New York, July 17, 1997, number 613
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, "Barye Catalogue Raisonné des Sculptures," Paris: Gallimard, 2000, pl. 62 pp. 110-111.
Lillian M. Burgunder, "Antoine-Louis Barye Sculptures and Decorative Objects in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," September 2006, p. 169.
Lillian M. Burgunder, "Antoine-Louis Barye Sculptures and Decorative Objects in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," September 2006, p. 169.
