Stag Fighting a Wolf, after Antoine Louis Barye
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 12 5/8 in. (23.5 × 32 cm) Plate: 7 9/16 × 9 3/8 in. (19.3 × 23.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.625.424
Tags
DeerWolves
About the Artist
Antoine-Louis Barye|Charles Jacque · 1795–1875
Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875) was born in Paris on September 24, the son of goldsmith Pierre Barye and Marguerite Barye. Following family tradition, he apprenticed as a goldsmith under his father and, around 1810, with Martin-Guillaume Biennais, goldsmith to Napoleon. After brief military service, Barye pursued sculpture, studying under François-Joseph Bosio in 1816 and painter Baron Antoine-Jea...