The quality of these works is high, comparable to Barye's.

"Barye's whole subject matter was against what the academy was all about at that time."

Barye had a predilection for the exotic, the weird and the monstrous.

"Animalier" doesn't sound like an exciting category, but Barye managed to do remarkable things with it.

Barye's snarling, aggressive beasts have many of the qualities dear to the Romantic heart.

"Once, when a lion died, Delacroix rushed Barye a note, and they both went out to draw it at close range."

Barye spent hours at the Paris zoo sketching the anatomy of animals to accurately reproduce them in bronze.

Here he has been compared with Antoine-Louis Barye.

Americans, in particular, have always appreciated the talents of Barye (pronounced bair-EE).

Perhaps Barye's appetite for depicting mortal combat between animals was formed by the two years he served in Napoleon's army, from 1812 to 1814.

He returned to work as a decorator, while taking classes with animal sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye.

In the cgs system, the unit of pressure is the barye (symbol ba), which is equal to one decipascal.

"Without Barye's personal hand and direction, these casts were not as well executed," Mr. Davies said.

I think of him and the Assyrians together, but I don't know whether he knew anything about them, because everything he did was Barye.

This signed and dated work from 1832 is by the French sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye.

After 1885 he worked in Paris, painting animals in the style of Antoine-Louis Barye.

Born in Paris, Barye began his career as a goldsmith, like many sculptors of the Romantic Period.

Delacroix and Barye were friends, Mr. Davies said.

Barbedienne Purchased 125 casting models from the late Antoine Louis Barye's sale in 1876.

Antoine-Louis Barye - Rehs Galleries' biography on the artist.

"The school was founded by Antoine-Louis Barye, a top sculptor, and they worked in and around Paris."

In Paris, he was impressed by the style of Antoine-Louis Barye, although in no sense an imitator.

Among the principal artists reproduced by the firm were Antoine Louis Barye and Auguste Rodin.

Inspired by Rodin and Barye, Matisse struggled to master volume in sculpture as well as in painting.