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Title: Barye : life and works of Antoine Louis Barye ... in memory of an exhibition of his bronzes, paintings, and water-colors, held at New York, in aid of the fund for his monument at Paris
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: De Kay, Charles, 1848-1935
Subjects: Barye, Antoine-Louis, 1796-1875
Publisher: New York : The Barye Monument Association
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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a wild animal in theusual sense for centuries. Two warriors of the fifteenth century inthe simple sort of helmets and breast-plates of Francis I pursue thewild bull, which has already got the better of several big mastiffs. Thehorses of two hunters have been driven fairly upon the bull so that theirforefeet are on its back while a third horseman is fairly under it,his horse having fallen dead. The piece is rather long, not being con-centrated into a compact group like the end pieces. The third is theHunt of the Lion and the fourth the Hunt of the Bear, a singularlywell-knit composition, full of rush on the part of the huntsmen and ofangry ineffectual fight on the side of the bears. The group is so goodthat for many critics it surpasses even the tiger-hunt with elephant, thepoint being that Barye loved bears and rendered them with singularspirit, and furthermore that a bear hunt is a scene not unknown in Europe,while a tiger-hunt requires in a European artist a good deal of imagina- 50
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No. 34. Hunt op the Tiger.Bronze. Height, 27 inrlies. THE FOUR UNIQUE HUNTS tion to take the place of study from the life. There are two bears andseveral dogs; one huntsman on horseback, of the time of Charles VII,is about giving with a sword a splendid right cut from the left side ofhis head ; another on foot has closed with a bear. For many reasons thisgroup may well be ranked first among the four pieces at ends and sides;but a careful examination of the groups now in the Walters Gallery mustlead to the conclusion that the centre-piece, the Tiger-hunt, is the mostimposing if not the closest to reality. The Walters Gallery lacks butone of this famous quintette. The Lion-hunt has not left France. TheBear-hunt was formerly in the collection of the late William TildenBlodgett of New York. The varied shapes of the nine groups are only understood when theirrelative positions are considered. Imagine an enormous baronial tablebearing a surtout laid with mirrors and lit by brilliant masses o

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