A bronze group "Panthère Saisissant un Cerf" - image-1

Lot 1074 Dα

A bronze group "Panthère Saisissant un Cerf"

Auction 1117 - overview Cologne
16.11.2018, 15:00 - Treasures from a Lower Saxon Collection
Estimate: 5.000 € - 8.000 €

A bronze group "Panthère Saisissant un Cerf"

Bronze with fine brown patina. A large group depicting a panther attacking a stag. Signed to the integral plinth "BARYE" and with foundry stamp to one side on the reverse "F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR". H 38, L 57 cm.
Modelled by Antoine-Louis Barye, cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne Paris, probably late 19th C.

Literature

An earlier cast in the Louvre in Paris in: Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe siècle, Paris 2005, p. 84.