. 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. , and Julius Caesar. There werealso the plaster cast touched with wax of a Python Crushing a Gnu aswell as a Nereid Arranging Her Necklace, a bronze now in the possessionof Monsieur Vial. Among the other objects was a guepard, or smallwild-cat of India (Felis jubata) and a Chimaera in wax, now owned byMonsieur Vial. There also appeared the dreadful little group which may be seen in theartotype, a Horseman of
. 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. , and Julius Caesar. There werealso the plaster cast touched with wax of a Python Crushing a Gnu aswell as a Nereid Arranging Her Necklace, a bronze now in the possessionof Monsieur Vial. Among the other objects was a guepard, or smallwild-cat of India (Felis jubata) and a Chimaera in wax, now owned byMonsieur Vial. There also appeared the dreadful little group which may be seen in theartotype, a Horseman of Africa Surprised by a Python, in the plastermodel touched up with wax. This is now in Monsieur Barbedienneslarge collection of Barye objects. A detail of some importance is notshown in the illustration to account for the position of the horse. Thesnake has taken a loop round the stump of a tree and crushes horseand horseman against the stump on the other side of the group. Theattack has been so sudden that the horseman is seized by the throatbefore he can either slip from the saddle or use his weapons. The sceneis one that appeals to every age. Although the books in which such 120. a CD O z CO AO w SALE AT THE HOTEL DEOUOT adventures are told are now prepared chiefly for boys, who have thehunger for curious animals and strange adventures with beasts thatadults are supposed to outgrow, yet it may be safely said that no onecan regard this battle without some emotion, even if it be one of unmiti-gated horror. Who shall blame the person who turns away from it witha shudder ? The man who could model such terrible things had in himthe quality that made Dante while still in life an object of no littleterror to the populace. It is to such groups as this that we may turn inorder to account for the various stories regaining Barye which give theimpression that his was a morose and forbidding nature. Among the articles left by Barye in his studio were plaster models forthe four great beast
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