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
Rights
Public Domain
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...