1592997140000 1431611474000 Standard Record object-201336 1753812150277 1582538624000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-201336 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201336 e3580d81-36c1-39cd-bb42-1f7d73ae96c8 8 reference term-98228 adlib-term-98228 3d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5c sculpture Height cm 16.7 Length cm 20.4 Width cm 9.8 Figure Height cm 2.7 Width cm 18.7 Base Applied Arts Wild, roaring, seated male lion crushing a serpent under his right paw. 29 reference exhibition-3296 adlib-exhibition-3296 22c63b63-3fa0-30d1-b048-52bda900eda7 Collecting & Giving M.2-2015 1 accession number M.2-2015 201336 priref 201336 Batchelor Collection old object number 4A 2006 2006 2006 The Fitzwilliam Museum former loan number AAL.236-2006 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201336 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201336 Front top of base 'BARYE' 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 1833 CE 1833 Original model after 1833. First bronze edition cast 1857; this version cast at an unknown date after 1857 circa 1833 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 (e.g. M.5-2015). The model for this bronze derives from a life-size plaster model made by Barye in 1832, which was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1833. It was later cast into bronze for Louis-Philippe (King of France from 1830 to 1848), and exhibited at the 1836 Salon (now Louvre, Paris, L.P. 1184). The composition was intended as an allegory to flatter the king with the lion symbolic of courage, strength and good kingship triumphing over evil. It also commemorated the fact that in July 1830, when the Revolution saw Louis-Philippe placed on the French throne, Leo and Hydra were the ruling constellations. Barye’s company produced different models derived from the original large sculpture at different dates and in different sizes. The model closer to the original sculpture with the lion and serpent on a flatter, less rocky surface (known as Lion au serpent, no. 1: see M.1-1944) dates from c. 1838, while the sketch model with the lion’s paw raised (known as Lion au serpent, no. 3 [esquisse]: see M.3-2015) dates from 1832. The date of the original model of the present bronze, with its much rockier surface, is unknown, but it was first cast in bronze in 1857. Although listed as No. 2, this was actually Barye’s third variant. After Barye's death, this model was one of 78 foundry models purchased at his 1876 studio sale by the Paris-based art dealer Hector-Henri-Clément Brame (1831-99) with the right to reproduce them. 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Louis Barye</value> media image reference term-110277 adlib-term-110277 97f1ad1c-7b1d-373a-b0ae-ed010d95f37b animal figure history note Sotheby's; purchased by L. Spero for Sir Ivor Batchelor from Sotheby's on 28 February 1962, lot 4. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Illustrated p. 73 detail, pp. 74-75 whole, discussed pp. 72-73, descriptive text p. 74, no. 29 74 reference publication-8565 adlib-publication-8565 5a13015c-cd03-37e5-ab7c-a277c121551a Collecting & Giving: Highlights from the Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest Model no. A 53 177 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 reference term-110277 adlib-term-110277 97f1ad1c-7b1d-373a-b0ae-ed010d95f37b animal figure animal figure cast, bronze, patinated reference term-26699 adlib-term-26699 a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8 casting (process) reference term-116050 adlib-term-116050 b9d5e94b-6fe6-3ae7-a49d-d3df90ec8d02 patination <value>Lion au serpent, no. 2</value> <value>(Lion and serpent, no. 2)</value> object OBJECT