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ANTOINE LOUIS BARYE (1796-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTOINE See also:LOUIS See also:BARYE (1796-1895)  , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 24th of See also:September 1796 . Like many of the sculptors of the See also:Renaissance he began See also:life as a See also:goldsmith . After studying under Bosio, the sculptor, and See also:Gros, the painter, he was in 1818 admitted to the fcole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts . But it was not till 1823, when he was working for Fauconnier, the goldsmith, that he discovered his real See also:bent from watching the See also:wild beasts in the Jardin des Plantes, making vigorous studies of them in See also:pencil drawings worthy of See also:Delacroix and then modelling them in See also:sculpture on a large or small See also:scale . In 1831 he exhibited his " See also:Tiger devouring a See also:Crocodile," and in 1832 had mastered a See also:style of his own in the " See also:Lion and Snake." Thenceforward See also:Barye, though engaged in a perpetual struggle with want, exhibited See also:year after year these studies of animals—admirable See also:groups which reveal him as inspired by a spirit of true See also:romance and a feeling for the beauty of the See also:antique, as in " See also:Theseus and the See also:Minotaur " (1847) , "Lapitha and Centaur " (1 848) , and numerous See also:minor See also:works now very highly valued . Barye was no less successful in sculpture on a small scale, and excelled in representing animals in their most See also:familiar attitudes . As examples of his larger See also:work we may mention the Lion of the See also:Column of See also:July, of which the See also:plaster See also:model was See also:cast in 1839, various lions and tigers in the gardens of the Tuileries, and the four groups—See also:War, See also:Peace, Strength, and See also:Order (18J4) . In 1852 he cast his See also:bronze " See also:Jaguar devouring a See also:Hare." The fame he deserved came too See also:late to the sculptor . He was made See also:professor at the museum in 1854, and was elected to the See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts in 1868 . He died on the 25th of See also:June 1875 . The See also:mass of admirable work See also:left to us by Barye entitles him to be regarded as the greatest artist of See also:animal life of the French school, and as the creator of a new class of See also:art which has attracted such men as See also:Fremiet, See also:Peter, See also:Cain, and See also:Garda, who are regarded with See also:justice as his worthiest followers .

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