Antoine-Louis Barye

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

Antoine-Louis Barye
CHARLES VII, LE VICTORIEUX
signed BARYE and inscribed F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur., incised number 29, black ink number 4908 and museum inventory number 1988.36.12 to the underside
bronze, green-ish patina
height 15 1/2 in.
39.5 cm

Provenance

Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (1882–1973), Madison, N.J., by 1973
Sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 29, 1975, lot 129, to Arthur Rubloff (1902–1986), Chicago
Bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988

Literature

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, BARYE, Catalogue raisonné des sculptures, Paris, 2000, no. F 8, p. 73

Catalogue Note

Barye's Charles VII, Le Victorieux was first cast in 1857, although first modelled between 1836 and 1840. It closely follows a first version, simply titled Charles VII, in which the young king does not wear his laurel crown, but instead bears the same elegant and imposing equestrian pose, see: Richarme et Poletti, F7. This model depicts Charles VII (1403-1461) in his youth, before his 1429 coronation at Rheims, which eventually led to the reunification of France.