| Barye studied with his father, a goldsmith, before studying the fine arts. He
made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1831 with a crouching tiger sinking its
teeth into the underside of a serpentine gavial, a crocodilelike animal. Roger
and Angelica on the Hippogriff, with its strange beast, fine details, and intricate
composition, allowed Barye to exercise the skills he had learned as a goldsmith
as well as those he honed as a celebrated animal sculptor. . . .
:: Laura Coyle, Art historian and Independent Curator |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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