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Source Description
George A. Lucas, William Walters' art agent in Paris, delivered a plaster cast of the sculptor Antoine Louis Barye's hand to the artist and Barye collector Léon Bonnat in April 1897. The following November, Lucas urged Bonnat to paint the image of the cast onto this partially cleaned palette. Lucas assembled a collection of more than seventy palettes, the majority of which are now at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The cast of the hand is preseved in the Musee Bonnat, Bayonne (no. 461).
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Document identity
localId
34903
label
The Hand of Antoine-Louis Barye
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obj
dtoType
drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
34903
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
The Hand of Antoine-Louis Barye
description
George A. Lucas, William Walters' art agent in Paris, delivered a plaster cast of the sculptor Antoine Louis Barye's hand to the artist and Barye collector Léon Bonnat in April 1897. The following November, Lucas urged Bonnat to paint the image of the cast onto this partially cleaned palette. Lucas assembled a collection of more than seventy palettes, the majority of which are now at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The cast of the hand is preseved in the Musee Bonnat, Bayonne (no. 461).
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1897
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
palettes
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
35.6
height
27.3
depth
1.6
dimensionsRaw
14 x 10 3/4 x 5/8 in. (35.56 x 27.31 x 1.59 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
""Ln Bonnat
"" signed lower left; ""1897
"" dated lower right ""Main et Palette de Barye
"" title upper leftReverse inscribed: ""avec laquelle le portrait du Cardinal Lavigerie a ete fait / L. Bonnat 1888""
med
oil on wood
creator_ids
8045
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
1956
484
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1
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0
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photo
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