Theseus Fighting the Centaur Bienor

Provenance

Ordered 1874 by William T. Walters, chairman of the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s acquisition committee, through (George A. Lucas, Paris); purchased 1874 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Theseus Fighting the Centaur Bienor

Barye, Antoine-Louis

model 1849, cast 1873

Accession Number

2014.136.279

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 113.03 × 126.05 × 40.64 cm (44 1/2 × 49 5/8 × 16 in.) | gross weight: 167.831 kg (370 lb.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)