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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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when about to spring,or when watching for game. We find the attitude in a terra-cottarecently discovered in the Levant, where a draped goddess appears to berescuing a youth from a lion. In Walking Lion and Walking Tigerthe sculptor has for artistic reasons avoided the commoner way ofcarrying the head and lent them the dignity they show in confine-ment, when their heads come up against the bars of the cage, and theirmuzzles are held high. This is the attitude of the lion in Geromes painting of Christiansexposed to wild beasts in the Roman amphitheatre. The painter tookone of Baryes lions bodily and placed it on his canvas, being certainthat in so doing he was working from nature itself or perhaps wasbetter off than if he took from nature. For it is a curious fact that incaptivity the male lion as a rule has a fuller and longer mane than in awild state, either because our climate favors a thicker pelt or because inthe wild state the mane is torn by thorns and sharp grasses or damaged 10
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o . HIS FATHEE A SILVEESMITH OF LYONS in fights with other lions. Here we find Barye declining to go to theextreme of realism. He takes the wild beast at its best, even if insome respects its beauty is really enhanced by captivity. It must not be imagined that Barye saw immediately his path insculpture or was at once convinced that a branch which is still consideredinferior was the one for him to pursue. Meantime he was passingthrough the ordinary hardships and discouragements of a young artisanwithout protectors or appreciators. His father was a jeweler of Lyonswho settled in Paris and married the daughter of an attorney namedClaparede, perhaps in the matter-of-fact way such things are still ar-ranged in France. And yet time and circumstances warranted some-thing out of the common in this union. Lyons or Lugdun, it will beremembered, was a more important city of Gaul than Paris. A shrineof the old Keltic deity Lug existed from remote ages there. Greekcolonists moved up from Vienne an

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