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The sculpture depicts three dogs surrounding a boar. The boar has its mouth open. The sculpture is made of bronze with green patination. The animals are depicted in a dynamic and energetic manner, emphasizing their texture and musculature.
National Gallery of Art · Sculpture
Bear Overthrown by Hounds
Antoine-Louis Barye
- Date
- model c. 1834/1838, cast by 1873
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- overall: 25.72 × 34.61 × 26.35 cm (10 1/8 × 13 5/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Classification
- Sculpture · Small Bronze
- Accession number
- 2015.19.3858
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1873)
- Time span
- 1826 to 1850
- Department
- CSD
Subjects and terms
- French
- mammal
- animal
- cast
- Bear
- European Small Bronzes before 1900
- Hounds
Provenance
Purchased 1873 from the artist by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] The sculpture is one of 116 bronzes acquired in two groups directly from the artist, one in 1873 and the other in 1874. According to the _Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art_, the group acquired in 1873 was selected for the Corcoran by William T. Walters, the prominent Baltimore collector and a Corcoran trustee, "in company with Barye." (See: "_Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art_," 1873-1946, Record Group 5.1 [COR.0005.1.RG], Gallery registrar's office records, 1869-2007, Series 1: Accessions 1869- [inclusive], Special Collections Research Center, George Washington University Libraries, Washington, DC; accessed on-line 30 November 2016: https://archive.org/details/corc_registerofbronzes).
Inscription
on the base: BARYE
NGA object ID 194999. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.