biography
| name: |
Barye, Antoine-Louis
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pronunciation:
[baree]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1796–1875)
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| biography:
| Sculptor and painter, born in Paris, France. The son of a Parisian goldsmith, he became the greatest of the ‘animaliers’, creating bronze animal statues, now in the Louvre. He was also one of the major Romantic artists of the 19th-c, painting landscapes in the Barbizon style. He executed the equestrian Napoléon for Ajáccio, Napoléon's birthplace. |
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