. Barye : life and works of Antoine Louis Barye ... in memory of an exhibition of his bronzes, paintings, and water-colors, held at New York, in aid of the fund for his monument at Paris. £ u. 7 THE TIGER DEVOURING A CROCODILE true look of that friend of man which man so rarely understands howto draw or paint or carve properly, that is to say, with the true move-ment and air of the horse. How much he profited by these studieswe shall find when we come to examine his equestrian groups. But Barye knew that in sculpture a living could be won only bymodeling human beings, so we find an entry in th
. Barye : life and works of Antoine Louis Barye ... in memory of an exhibition of his bronzes, paintings, and water-colors, held at New York, in aid of the fund for his monument at Paris. £ u. 7 THE TIGER DEVOURING A CROCODILE true look of that friend of man which man so rarely understands howto draw or paint or carve properly, that is to say, with the true move-ment and air of the horse. How much he profited by these studieswe shall find when we come to examine his equestrian groups. But Barye knew that in sculpture a living could be won only bymodeling human beings, so we find an entry in the Salon of 1827 ofa bust of a young man and another of a young woman by the studentof beasts. But these were not destined to award him that triumphamong his fellow students and the genuine amateurs which alwaysprecedes the recognition of a new genius. It was not till the Salonof 1831, when he was married and a father, that he made his firstsuccess. To that Salon he sent a full length Saint Sebastian in terra-cotta, concerning which a critic (Stendhal) remarked with satisfactionthat at least here was a sculptor who did not make legs like a coupleof radishes ! He also showed the sketch-m
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