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“Lion Qui Marche” (Lion Walking) Sculpture By Antoine Louis Barye Replica.

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“Lion Qui Marche” (Lion Walking) Sculpture By Antoine Louis Barye Replica.
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Offered here is a Pompeian Bronze replica of the “LION QUI MARCHE” (Lion Walking) SCULPTURE By ANTOINE LOUIS BARYE REPLICA. This sculpture weighs in at almost 11 pounds and measures 16.5 Inches long, 9.6 Inches tall with a double bevel base that is 15.25 inches by 3.625 inches and 1 inch tall. Antoine Louis Barye (1796-1875) was the first and acclaimed by most as the finest sculpture of the French Animaliers school. His work is almost exclusively studies of wild animals, especially big cats. He was an accomplished artist as well as sculptor and his models are technically competent, based on his studies of actual wild animals, both living and dead, at the Jardin de Plantes in Paris, where he spent much of his time. After his death in 1875 most of his plasters and models were purchased by Ferdinand Barbedienne, the famous founder whose earlier gold FB casts of Barye’s workds were so meticulously done. Barbedienne continued casting bronzes from Barye’s original master models until after the turn of the century. The Pompeian Bronze Works traces its history back to the Galvano Bronze Company, a New York City firm founded by Paul Mori around 1889. Using bronze electroplating (bronze-clad) and electroforming using white-metal (often pewter) or spelter (zinc) they produced bookends as well as lamps, ashtrays, and more. In 1921 alone, Peter Manfredi, of Pompeian Bronze, registered 27 designs of bookends and lamps with the US Library of Congress Copyright Office, including some of the finest designs ever created. Eventually they acquired the rights to reproduce some of Barye’s work. This piece is marked as an Barye work on the top of the base, and on the side it is engraved as a Pompeian Bronze, No. 304. Today most of Barye’s plasters and models are the property of the Louvre.
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