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Barye, Antoine Louis,
F. Barbedienne fonderie,
Allegory -- Quality
Figure group -- Male & Child
Dress -- Accessory
Animal -- Lion
Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Baltimore
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Sculpture
Force (sculpture).
Artist:
Barye, Antoine Louis, 1796-1875, sculptor.
F
.
Barbedienne
fonderie
,
founder
.
Title:
Force (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Barye Bronzes: Force, (sculpture).
Dates:
Original late 1850s. Dedicated Feb. 1, 1885.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: marble.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 39 x 28 x 32 in.; Base: approx. 47 x 32 x 38 in.
Inscription:
(Sculpture, just under male figure's proper left foot:) BARYE (Sculpture, just under male figure's proper right foot: imprint of missing foundry marker) (Sculpture, just under lion's rear:)
F
.
BARBEDIENNE
.FONDEUR (Base, plaque on front:) FORCE signed
Founder
's mark appears.
Description:
Force is represented by a seated nude male figure with a nude young boy leaning against his proper left leg and a lion reclining behind him. The young boy rests his chin on his raised proper left hand. The male figure rests his proper left hand on the boy's shoulder and holds a staff with his proper right hand.
Subject:
Allegory -- Quality -- Fortitude
Figure group -- Male & Child -- Nude
Dress -- Accessory -- Cane
Animal -- Lion
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Baltimore
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Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Baltimore, Recreation and Parks, 2600 Madison Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21217
Located Mt. Vernon Place, Northeast corner of the Washington Monument, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Provenance:
Formerly located Mt. Vernon Place, West Garden, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 1885-1916.
Remarks:
This sculpture is one of five bronzes by Barye that were given to the City of Baltimore by wealthy businessman William Thompson Walters in 1885. Originally, all five were installed in the West Garden of Mt. Vernon Place. In 1916, due to landscaping improvements, all five bronzes were relocated to the area around the Washington Monument.
The sculpture is a copy of a stone sculpture Barye created in the late 1950s for the top of the columns on the facade of the Louvre in Paris. IAS files contain an excerpt from William Sener Rusk's "Art in Baltimore: Monuments and Memorials," Baltimore: Norman, Remington, 1929, pg. 9-10; John Dorsey's "Mount Vernon Place," Baltimore: Maclay & Associates, 1983, pg. 24-25; and Kathleen Kotarba's report "The Baltimore Bronze Project," Baltimore: Baltimore City Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, July 1989. For related information see: Henry and Caroline Naylor's "Public Monuments & Sculpture of Baltimore: An Introduction to the Collection," 1987, pg. 11; and Wilbur Harvey Hunter's "The Monumental City, The Rinehart School of Sculpture 75th Anniversary Catalogue 1896-1971," pg. 18.
References:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland, Baltimore survey, 1992.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS MD000327
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Inventory of American Sculpture
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