The River God

modeled 1866-1867; first cast ca. 1876

84 cm 60.7 cm 38.1 cm

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These bronzes (this one and Walters 27.182) are reductions of the stone sculptures that the architect Hector-Martin Lefuel (1810-80) commissioned in 1866 for the Carrousel entrance, a narrow, double passageway leading into the courtyard of the Louvre. Barye adhered to the anci...

Sculpture

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Ferdinand Barbedienne; William T. Walters, Baltimore, September 1884, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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