Maison de Barye

Maison-atelier du sculpteur animalier Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875). Le seul sculpteur de l'Ecole de Barbizon, ami de Delacroix, auteur des lions du Louvre.

Description

Antoine-Louis Barye occupa la maison au 26 Grande Rue, aujourd'hui connue sous le nom de l'ancienne Auberge La Flambee. Barye est le seul grand sculpteur associe a l'Ecole de Barbizon -- les autres etaient peintres. Il rejoignit le groupe des 1841, attire par la foret qu'il parcourait pour observer cerfs, sangliers et rapaces avec la meme methodologie anatomique qu'il avait developpee au Jardin des Plantes de Paris. Ses aquarelles de Fontainebleau -- moins connues que ses bronzes -- montrent un coloriste etonnant, directement influence par Rousseau et Diaz. La rue Barye de Barbizon perpeTue son souvenir.

Historical context

Barye drew the animals of the Jardin des Plantes with Delacroix. He sculpted the lions at the gates of the Louvre, the Napoleon of Ajaccio, the allegorical figures of the Sully pavilion. He was rejected by the Salon, then elected to the Academy. His whole life was made of oscillations between official recognition and marginality. At Barbizon he found what Paris could not give him: the chance to observe animals in their natural habitat, not in a cage. The forest of Fontainebleau, with its deer and wild boar, provided living models that no zoological garden could match. His Barbizon watercolours are among the least known and most beautiful works of the School.

Historical research: grappilles.fr — Barbizon Histoire et Patrimoine

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