ANCIENT BRONZE SCULPTURES, WARRIOR AND LION, BARYE, FRENCH SCULPTOR. (STB39)
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(STB39) The Warrior Sculpture With Lance and Lion is in Bronze from the second half of the 19th century. Original 19th century patina. Author Antoine Louis Barye (1795-1875), important French sculptor, Barye was born in Paris in 1795, he is famous for his animal sculptures, sculptures that he would have updated, son of a goldsmith, enters the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1818 and worked as an apprentice in the studio of the sculptor François Joseph Bosio and the painter Jean-Antoine Gros. With his friend Delacroix, he regularly visits the Menagerie of the Natural History Museum to study and observe animals. It is in the & n