Antoine-Louis Barye
Antoine-Louis Barye (born September 24, 1795 in Paris , † June 27, 1875 there ) was a French sculptor .
life and work
1809 Barye began 14 years his apprenticeship with a metal engraver , but was at the mobilization of the Russian campaign committed in the army. From the beginning Barye worked in the staff of the engineering corps , where he learned to draw and model fortress plans in the staff school . In 1814 Barye was released into civilian life and began to learn the profession of chaser . Two years later he joined the sculptor François Joseph Bosio as a student , where he learned artistic modeling. With his recommendation, the painter Antoine-Jean took Gros Barye in his studio in 1817 . In the following year, Barye was able to win a prize at the exhibition of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with his relief Milo von Kroton fighting a lion .
Since he had been mentioned in the following years at the exhibitions of the École des Beaux-Arts and in the Paris Salon only praiseworthy and received a bronze medal, Barye refused to exhibit his works. He got a job with the goldsmith and jeweler Jacques Henri Fauconnier , who, however, passed off most of Barye's work as his own. During these years Barye began his animal studies; mostly in the Jardin des Plantes .
It was not until 1831 that Barye presented another work to the public: A tiger tearing a crocodile apart and established his reputation as an animal sculptor with this sculpture. With the bronze lion tearing a snake he outdid himself and was therefore made a Knight of the Legion of Honor . One of his best customers during these years was the Duke of Orléans , for whom he a. a. created several centerpieces with different groups of animals.
Among the best of the other works created over the next few years are the relief of the lion on the pedestal of the July column , a dead gazelle for the Duke of Orléans, and a young lion prostrating a horse. Among his other, almost exclusively in bronze casting executed works of the stands centaurs fighting Lapith because of the dramatic power of representation at the top. There are also several small equestrian statues and statuettes from different periods of his life, as well as the somewhat too eccentric equestrian statue of Napoleon I for Ajaccio in 1864 . The Museum des Luxembourg keeps a significant number of his models and small bronzes. In addition to these pictorial works, Barye also successfully pursued watercolor painting, etching and lithography . As a sculptor, he was one of the most ardent champions of realism , who knew how to combine an intense study of nature with great boldness of conception.
Antoine-Louis Barye is the father of the sculptor Alfred Barye. Antoine-Louis Barye died on June 27, 1875 at the age of almost 80. He was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.
Works (selection)
- The wooden barge , 18 × 24 cm. Paris, private collection.
- The artist's daughter , canvas, 75 × 60 cm. Paris, Musee National du Louvre.
- Eating lion , wood, 12 × 23 cm. Paris, Musee National du Louvre.
- Fighting deer , canvas, 25 × 32 cm. Paris, Musee National du Louvre.
- Landscape near Fontainebleau , wood, 20 × 27 cm. Paris, private collection.
- Lions in front of their den , canvas, 39 × 50 cm. Paris, Musee National du Louvre.
- Tearing lion , wood, 10 × 21 cm. Paris, Musee National du Louvre.
- Resting tiger , canvas, 51 × 121 cm. Paris, Musee National du Louvre.
- Snake suffocates antelope , watercolor, 24 × 42 cm. Paris, private collection.
- Apremont Gorges , canvas, 17 × 31 cm. Paris, Musee National du Louvre.
- Tiger in the wild , watercolor, 30 × 71 cm. New York, W. Cummings Baker Coll.
- Monument to Napoléon Ier et ses frères in Ajaccio, 1865
literature
- [Anonymous]: Barye. Sculptures, peintures et aquarelles des collections publiques françaises (Oct. 1956 - February 1957). Louvre, Paris 1956, OCLC 77735094 .
- William R. Johnston: Untamed. The art of Antoine-Louis Barye. Prestel, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7913-3602-9 .
- Michel Poletti: Barye. Catalog raisonné des sculptures. Gallimard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-07-011628-X .
- Martin Sonnabend: Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875). Study of the plastic work. Scaneg Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-89235-023-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Antoine-Louis Barye in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gallery with bronze sculptures Baryes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barye, Antoine-Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1875 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |