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 (1889) (14764387884)

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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 Greek name and called kleptomania. Baryes bronzes, in fact, were as difficult to keep as the rare old books which have tempted scholars from the straight road. Barye set himself to do justice to this magnificent commission before the weakness of old age overtook him, for he was then already seventy-seven. He managed to send to the Corcoran Gallery no less than one hundred and twenty bronzes before the grim spectre which he had suggested so many times in his conflicts of animals and men came to his bedside and bade him submit to the inexorable law of which he had been the curious and sombre poet. About this time, whilst he was confined to the house by an illness, his wife essayed to interest him by chatting about his works as she dusted the bronzes in the little workshop. You should cut the names on these groups clearer she remarked when you feel better. Barye lifted his head from his hand and said: Within twenty years, my dear, people will be studying my signature with a magnifying glass. 116
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ooo d THE DEATH OF BAEYE II One by one his friends had been falling, and in 1875 the sculptor found that little band in Barbizon strangely shrunk. Corot was about to die, and Millet was ill. Rousseau, for whom he had finished with loving care a wonderful specimen of the Growling Wolf which is now in the Walters collection, labelling it A l'Ami Rousseau, Son Admirateur A.L. Barye— the great landscape painter Rousseau had brought his uneventful yet tragic life to a close twelve years before. Like him Barye was a Parisian who rarely left Paris and never France. Like Corot he suffered years of eclipse only to be hailed at the end of his life as in certain lines the greatest artist ever produced by France. Like Millet he was the unobtrusive silent champion of a race, not of men, but of the dumb animals which have suffered tortures beyond the estimate of mans brain because man has kept them too low and far away from himself. And, like Millet also, he found the United States full of admirers. Like D