Lot 73
  • 73

Antoine-Louis Barye

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Antoine-Louis Barye
  • Stag and Doe in Flight
  • signed BARYE (lower right)
  • oil on panel
  • 9 1/4 by 13 1/4 in.
  • 23.5 by 33.7 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist (and sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente Barye, February 7-12, 1876, lot 86)
Guillaume de Gontaut Biron, Marquis de Biron, Paris and Geneva
Comte G. de Loriol
Sale: Sotheby's, London, November 24-25, 1964, lot 117a
Private collection, Geneva
Private collection (acquired from the above in March 1965)
Myron A. Hofer II, Cambridge, Mass. (presented from the above in 1966, according to a label on the reverse)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, December 9, 1988, lot 169, illustrated
Private collection (acquired from the above sale)

Exhibited

Paris, École des Beaux Arts, 1875, no. 362 (as Cerf et biche: ébauche)
New York, Wildenstein, The Wild Kingdom of Antoine-Louis Barye, November 4 - December 9, 1994, no. 104, p. 96, illustrated fig. 104

Condition

Stable Panel. Under UV: Scattered dots of inpaiting in sky and foreground.
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Catalogue Note

A watercolor of this composition is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (see: Charles O. Zieseniss, Les Aquarelles de Barye: étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1954, p. 76, no. D35).