Live Auction 10660Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL OF 'THE ELEPHANT DU SENEGAL'
Lot 403

A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL OF 'THE ELEPHANT DU SENEGAL'

LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (1795-1875)

Closed16 September 2015

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GBP 4,750

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A FRENCH BRONZE MODEL OF 'THE ELEPHANT DU SENEGAL'
LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (1795-1875)
Signed in the cast 'BARYE', foundry inscription 'F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR' and with an impressed number under base '7 / 589'
5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a comparable model see M. Poletti & A. Richarme, Barye, Catalogue Raisonne des Sculptures, 2000, A119, pp. 251-3.