Description: Large 19th century bronze by the famous 19th century French sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye. Sculpture is of an Arab in traditional attire astride a horse.

History: Born in Paris, Barye began his career as a goldsmith, like many sculptors of the Romantic Period. He first worked under his father, Pierre, but around 1810 worked under the sculptor Guillaume-Mertin Biennais, who was a goldsmith to Napoleon. After studying under sculptor Francois-Joseph Bosio in 1816 and painter Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, he was (in 1818) admitted to the École des Beaux Arts. But it was not until 1823, while working for Fauconnier, the goldsmith, that he discovered his true predilection from watching the animals in the Jardin des Plantes, making vigorous studies of them in pencil drawings comparable to those of Delacroix, then modelling them in sculpture on a large or small scale.The mass of admirable work left by Barye entitles him to be regarded as one of the great animal life artists of the French school, and the refiner of a class of art which has attracted such men as Emmanuel Frémiet, Paul-Édouard Delabrièrre, Auguste Cain, and Georges Gardet.

Provenance: N/A

Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 90lbs | Height(in) = 34 | Width(in) = 17 | Depth(in) = 26

Size of Artwork(in): 31 x 15 x 24

Artist Name: Barye

Medium: Bronze/Wood

Circa: C. 1905

Very good condition