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Antoine-Louis Barye (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan lwi baʁi]; 24 September 1795 – 25 June 1875) was a Romantic French sculptor most famous for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals. His son and student was the known sculptor Alfred Barye.
Jun 22, 2024 · Antoine-Louis Barye (born September 24, 1795, Paris, France—died June 25, 1875, Paris) was a prolific French sculptor, painter, and printmaker whose subject was primarily animals. He is known as the father of the modern Animalier school.
Antoine-Louis Barye was the leading sculptor in the French group of artists known as Les Animaliers. The term was originally meant as an insult, mocking the small scale and “secondary” subject matter of Barye’s animal sculptures, but he and his contemporaries happily adopted the term.
Biography. Antoine-Louis Barye lived his entire life in Paris and may never have left France. He was born in 1795 (a date revised in the 1990s from 1796 as a result of Martin Sonnabend's recalculation of the Revolutionary calendar).
'The animal sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye regularly visited the Forest of Fontainebleau from the late 1840s and rented a house at Barbizon starting in 1867. In his watercolors, he created...
Antoine-Louis Barye was a French sculptor working in the animalier style. View Antoine-Louis Barye’s 6,322 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Barye was the preeminent sculptor in the nineteenth century specializing in animal subjects and a major figure of the Romantic movement. His work is imbued with a naturalism anchored in close observation of anatomy and a remarkable ability to portray an animal’s cast of mind, whether at rest or in motion, alone or in groups
