1592997144000 1432814504000 Standard Record object-201415 1753812151094 1576505163000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-201415 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201415 ed5e009f-6a90-3a20-a035-3d1eb3ebe6d0 8 reference term-98228 adlib-term-98228 3d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5c sculpture Height cm 3.3 Length cm 16.1 Width cm 26.9 Base Height cm 45.1 Length cm 30.5 Width cm 18.7 Figure Applied Arts Bronze figure group of Theseus about to kill the Minotaur 32 reference exhibition-3296 adlib-exhibition-3296 22c63b63-3fa0-30d1-b048-52bda900eda7 Collecting & Giving M.5-2015 1 accession number M.5-2015 201415 priref 201415 Batchelor Collection old object number 1 2015 2015 2015 The Fitzwilliam Museum former loan number AAL.239-2006 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201415 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201415 Top rear of base 'BARYE' in intaglio mark reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund reference agent-166527 adlib-agent-166527 3d240ab9-5cc0-3201-953a-01170d7e3328 Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady 2015 2015 2015-04-27 bequeathed 1857 CE 1857 Original model (first version): 1843; original model (second version): by 1857. First cast in bronze: 1857; this edition cast at an unknown date after 1857. after 1857 sculptor reference agent-8007 adlib-agent-8007 b9847a81-d5e5-3e2c-b666-4612f3341f31 Barye, Antoine Louis Dubbed the ‘Michelangelo of the Menagerie’ by art critic Théophile Gautier (1811–72), Barye was a Romantic realist artist based in Paris who popularised the genre of animal sculpture from the 1830s onwards. Animals were very low down in the traditional Academic hierarchy of accepted subject-matter for artists, and the term animalier (an artist specialising in animals) was coined by critics specifically for Barye as a pejorative appellation. Barye was a successful monumental sculptor, but also created hundreds of small-scale models of animals for reproduction in bronze editions for middle-class homes. His last sales catalogue of 1865 listed over 230 compositions available to order as edition bronze statuettes. Keen for accuracy, Barye studied ancient animal sculptures as well as live beasts in the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle’s menagerie, copied zoological specimens in the Musée d’Anatomie Comparée and made anatomical drawings of dead lions. Bayre’s animal portraits include single animal figures (e.g. M.19-2015) and groups of predators with prey, or in combat with each other (e.g. M.1-2015), and some with human figures, such as the present group. According to ancient Greek mythology, King Minos of Crete decreed that seven Anthenian young men and women be sacrificed each year to the Minotaur, a half-man, bull-headed monster, imprisoned in a labyrinth. Theseus, son of the King of Attica, heroically fought and killed the Minotaur at the heart of the labyrinth, using a sword that Minos’ daughter, Ariadne had given him. Theseus and the Minotaur is considered to be one of Barye's most striking neoclassical works. The stylised figure of Theseus is inspired by two drawings: one of an executioner by Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), in turn derived from the executioner in the Renaissance fresco of The Beheading of John the Baptist by Andrea del Sarto in the Scalzi Monastery, Florence; the second a sheet of sketches of boxers by Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Barye submitted the original model of this group to the Paris Salon of 1843 together with four other works, all of which were rejected. It was later listed in the catalogue of Besse et Cie (a leading Paris firm of art dealers) in 1844, where it was described as ‘one of the most beautiful works, one of the most energetic figures that modern sculpture has produced’. Barye later revised the base of this first version, resulting in the second version seen here. The first bronze cast of the first model was exhibited in the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris (now Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no. 2708-1856). The second version was probably modelled after this date and was first cast in bronze in 1857. At the posthumous sale of Barye's studio contents in 1876, the Theseus model was highly sought after. It was bought by the art dealers Goupil et Cie to be replicated in bronze editions by the Paris-based foundry, F. Barbedienne. 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Spero from whom purchased in 1960. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Illustrated p. 73 detail p. 80-81 whole, discussed p. 72-73, descriptive text p. 81, no. 32 81 reference publication-8565 adlib-publication-8565 5a13015c-cd03-37e5-ab7c-a277c121551a Collecting & Giving: Highlights from the Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest See also pp. 106-7 for the first model 108 reference publication-8661 adlib-publication-8661 210b0f35-9eff-3a64-b3d3-54054c8a71d2 Barye. Catalogue raisonné des sculptures reference publication-1132 adlib-publication-1132 1cbed961-60c1-38bf-b28d-707191b82a8d The Barye Bronzes reference term-8399 adlib-term-8399 6611ae15-9298-340e-8c20-9fc4c7a76bf8 French

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