Background
He was born in 1796 in Paris, France.
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He was born in 1796 in Paris, France.
After studying under sculptor Francois-Joseph Bosio in 1816, and painter Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, he was in 1818 admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts.
He first worked under his father Pierre, and around 1810 worked under the sculptor Guillaume-Mertin Biennais, who was a goldsmith to Napoleon.
c. 1820 Bayre sculpted Hercules with the Erymanthean Boar, depicting Hercules's fourth Labor, where he had to capture a live wild boar from Mount Erymanthos.
After studying, failing to win official recognition, Barye worked with the jeweler Fauconnier from 1823 to 1832, when he began to be successful as an independent sculptor, including among his patrons the Duc d'Orléansd and Henry Walters, the American collector.
Barye sculpted the portrait medallion Young Man in a Beret (1823) in bronze, as well as Portrait of the Founder Richard (1827), in which only a head and neck are shown. He also sculpted Poised Stag (1829), a much larger sculpture, which had a height of 48 cm, and was one-third life size.
Barye didn't only want to be known as a sculptor of small bronzes, he wanted to be known as a sculpteur statuaire (a sculptor of large statues). In 1831 he exhibited his " Tiger devouring a Crocodile, " and in 1832 had mastered a style of his own in the " Lion and Snake. "
In 1848 he was forced to declare bankruptcy, and all of his work and molds were sold to a foundry. The foundry began making inferior work from 1848-1857, and his reputation suffered during this time.
Fame did not come until later in life. In 1854 he was made Professor of Drawings at the Museum of Natural History. He produced no new works after 1869.
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He was elected to the Académie des beaux-arts in 1868
He often faced financial burdens due to his lack of business knowledge.
