Alfred Barye

Alfred "Alf" Barye (; 21 January 1839 – 1882), usually known as Alfred Barye "Le Fils" (i.e. "Alfred Barye Jr."), was a French sculptor, of the Belle Époque, pupil of his father the artist Antoine-Louis Barye. In cooperation with Émile-Coriolan Guillemin, Barye did the artwork for "The Arab Warrior Knight on Horseback". Included in Barye's oeuvre were animalier bronzes as well as Oriental subjects. At his father's request, he signed his work as "fils" to differentiate his work from his father's.

Career

He specialized in the animalier school in the production of bronze sculptures. Although a fine artist in his own right, he struggled to create his own identity living in the shadow of his more famous father. The vast majority of his pieces are signed "A. Barye, fils" while some are marked "Barye" or "A. Barye" which created some confusion – intentional or not – with those of his father. (a color famously used by his father) and auburn-colored hues in the patination process.

Museum holdings His bronzes are now in many museum collections:

Louvre Museum, Paris Musée d'Orsay, Paris Brooklyn Museum, New York City Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts Bush-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida

Exhibitions Alfred Barye exhibited works at the Paris Salon on four occasions between 1864 and 1882, including the following bronzes:

The racehorse Walter Scott, 1864 Italian jester, 1882

Signature examples