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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, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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