Sculpture "Cat", cast version
Sculpture "Cat", cast version
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cast | patinated | certificate | size 9.5 x 4 x 9 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 0.1 kg
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Sculpture "Cat", cast version
A skilful portrayal of tense posture, muscle play and a cat's own character.
Original: Bronze, France, 19th century, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Sculpture made of hand-patinated resin. With certificate of authenticity. Size 9.5 x 4 x 9 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 0.1 kg.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Antoine-Louis Barye
1795-1875
At the Paris Salon of 1831, Bayre caused a sensation with his sculpture "Tiger Devouring a Gavial Crocodile". He was the first to introduce such dramatic and veristic scenes into 19th-century sculpture, which were only similar to the art of Eugène Delacroix. Barye no longer saw the animal as the symbolic carrier of meaning but depicted it in its various genres and their peculiarities.
Extensive studies in the Jardin de Plantes and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris enabled him to create precise representations of nature. In doing so, he took the sculpture out of academic Classicism and contributed to its departure into the modern age.
The son of a goldsmith was born on September 24, 1795, in Paris and received his first training from his father. This was followed by an apprenticeship as a steel engraver, which was perfected through admission to the studios of the sculptor Bosio and the painter Gros. In 1818, Barye was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts. When the Salon of 1837 rejected him, he founded an arts and crafts firm with a partner, where the models for the world-famous Parisian bronzes were created.
Although he received state commissions through influential patrons, his art only gained general recognition after 1848. He became a professor of zoological drawing at the National Museum of Natural History in 1854 and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1868.
Antoine-Louis Barye also created special works of art as a painter and graphic artist, especially with his landscape watercolours. He died on June 25, 1875, in Paris, and is now considered one of the 19th-century artists who liberated art from its historical, mythological and literary constraints.
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Stone Casting
Similar to artificial marble, with the difference that instead of marble powder, the stone to be replicated is used in powder form.
Bonded Bronze (Cold-Cast-Bronze)
Bronze powder is polymer-bonded. Through special polishing and patination techniques, the surface of the cast takes on an appearance similar to that of bronze.
Imitation Wood
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Ceramic Mould Casting
Ceramic mould casting usually requires the use of casting clay, which is then fired and optionally glazed. Instead of the usual rubber moulds, plaster moulds are often used in ceramic casting and porcelain production.
Cast Bronze (Lost-Wax-Casting)
For the cast bronze, the thousand-year-old lost-wax technique is used. It's the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.
A true-to-the-original reproduction of an artwork in the same size and with the best possible material and colour uniformity.
The mould is usually taken directly from the original so that the replication reproduces even the finest details. After casting the replication, using the most appropriate method, the surface is polished, patinated, gilded or painted according to the original.
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A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.