. 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. -tion of 1812 to be made. The apprentice was taken and assigned firstto the military department, where maps in relief were modeled, andthen to the sappers and miners. As these gentry used to be selectedfrom the taller and more powerful men of the army it may be inferredthat Barye was even then large and robust. We do not know howhe passed the next few years after Waterloo, only it is certain that by1815, whil
. 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. -tion of 1812 to be made. The apprentice was taken and assigned firstto the military department, where maps in relief were modeled, andthen to the sappers and miners. As these gentry used to be selectedfrom the taller and more powerful men of the army it may be inferredthat Barye was even then large and robust. We do not know howhe passed the next few years after Waterloo, only it is certain that by1815, while in the National Guard, he was well aware of his deficienciesas an artist and had set his mind to become a draughtsman if not apainter, and that by 1817 he was quit of the jewelers bench. While serving in the National Guard he made an acquaintance whoset him on his road by good advice, a sculptor in his own militiacompany whose name Barye always recalled with gratitude, although ithas never made a mark in the world. From him he got the encourage-ment necessary to cause him to make a resolution never afterwardsbroken. How likely it was that a resolution made by a man like Barye 12. NO
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