The River God

modeled 1866-1867; first cast ca. 1876

86.5 cm 58.5 cm 36.5 cm

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This bronze (along with Walters 27.181) are reductions of the stone sculptures that the architect Hector-Martin Lefuel (1810-1880) commissioned in 1866 for the Carrousel entrance, a narrow, double passageway leading into the courtyard of the Louvre. Barye adhered to the ancie...

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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