{"id":10660,"date":"2025-03-22T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/produit\/panthere-surprenant-un-serpent\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:00:02","slug":"panthere-surprenant-un-serpent","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/produit\/panthere-surprenant-un-serpent\/","title":{"rendered":"PANTHER SURPRISING A SNAKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Son and pupil of Antoine-Louis Barye, Alfred Barye made his debut at the 1864 Salon with a bronze statuette, <em>Walter Scott, cheval de selle de l&#8217;empereur<\/em>, and exhibited for the last time in 1882. Also an animal sculptor, he worked in his father&#8217;s studio, producing a large number of racehorses, as well as groups of birds and genre figures, mostly in bronze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like his father, he sought out the synthetic, powerful forms of animal bodies, which are perfectly reflected in our wax bas-relief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, Alfred Barye delivers a vivid, anatomically accurate profile of a panther surprising a snake. The feline&#8217;s muscular body occupies all the space in the bas-relief, ending in a face-to-face confrontation focused on the jaw of the furious animal devouring its prey. Like a spring, the snake has wrapped itself around the front leg of the panther,its mouth gaping open.\u00a0 The power of the scene is conveyed by the nervous surface of the wax, sometimes incised with lines as if visually to mark the violence of the combat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This exceptional wax, created by a unique artist, is also a son&#8217;s tribute to his father. The fierce battle is reminiscent of the roaring heads of <em>Tigre d\u00e9vorant un gavial<\/em> <em>(1831)<\/em> and <em>Lion au Serpent n\u00b0 1 (1838)<\/em> by Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875). It was this same romantic ardor that inspired Alfred Barye in the present composition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #e1b300;\">Alfred BARYE<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wax bas-relief, signed \u201cBARYE\u201d.<br \/>\nH.14 \u00bc\u201d x W. 20 \u00bd\u201d x D. 4\u201d<br \/>\nCirca 1860<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unique piece<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provenance: former collection of the sculptor, Georges Malissard.<br \/>\nBibliography: Stanislas Lami, <em>Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l&#8217;\u00e9cole fran\u00e7aise au dix-neuvi\u00e8me si\u00e8cle<\/em>, 1919, Volume 1; Pierre Kjellberg, <em>Les bronzes du XIXe si\u00e8cle Dictionnaire des sculpteurs,<\/em> 1987, page 53.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10643,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[709,259,260],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10660","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-alfred-barye-en-2","7":"product_cat-animaliers-xixeme-en","8":"product_cat-galerie-faubourg-saint-honore-en","9":"description-off","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}