The Sporting Sale including The John Poynton Collection

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Lot 330
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Antoine-Louis Barye French, 1795-1875

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Antoine-Louis Barye
  • Cheval demi-sang (tête baissée) (a half-blood horse)
  • signed: BARYE
  • bronze, dark brown patina

Catalogue Note

Barye first edited this model of a 'demi-sang' horse around 1845. He also edited a model of a 'demi-sang' with its head raised. The present model is first distinguished from the raised head model in Barye's sixth catalogue of 1865. It appears as 'Cheval demi-sang la tête baissée' with its reduction in the same catalogue. A cast of the reduced version appears as lot 318 in this sale. 

Casts of the model are in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

RELATED LITERATURE
Poletti & Richarme, A124 (1), p. 259