Antoine Louis BARYE
France 1795 – 1875
Esquisse pour Thésée combatant le centaure Biénor
[Study for Theseus slaying the centaur Bienor]
[also known as Un Centaure and Lapith [A Centaur and Lapith]]
c.1848 Creation Notes: date of cast unknown, foundry unknown
Sculpture, bronze
Edition: edition unknown
Primary Insc: signed, incised on base, "A L BARYE", not dated
34.5 h x 38.3 w x 14.0 d cm
Purchased 1979
Accession No: NGA 79.1957
Provenance:
- Bruton Gallery, Somerset;
- from whom bought by the Australian National Gallery, August 1979