BARYE, ANTOINE LOUIS (I 796-187J), French sculptor, was born in Paris on Sept. 24, 1796. Like many of the sculptors of the Renaissance he began life as a goldsmith. After studying under Bosio, the sculptor, and Gros, the painter, he was in 1818 admitted to the l?cole des Beaux Arts. In 1823, when he was working for Fauconnier, the goldsmith, he discovered his real bent from watching the wild beasts in the Jardin des Plantes, making vigorous studies of them in pencil drawings and then modelling them in sculpture on a large or small scale. In 1831 he exhibited his "Tiger devouring a Crocodile," and in 1832 had mastered a style of his own in the "Lion and Snake." Thence forward Barye, though engaged in a perpetual struggle with want, exhibited year after year these studies of animals—admirable groups which reveal him as inspired by a spirit of true romance and a feeling for the beauty of the antique, as in "Theseus and the Minotaur" (1847), "Lapitha and Centaur" (1848), and numerous minor works. As examples of his larger work we may mention the Lion of the Column of July, of which the plaster model was cast in 1839, various lions and tigers in the gardens of the Tuileries, and the four groups—War, Peace, Strength and Order (1854). In 1852 he cast his bronze "Jaguar devouring a Hare." He was made professor at the museum in 1854, and was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1868. He died on June 25 See Arsene Alexandre, "A. L. Barye," Les Artistes celebres, ed. E. Muntz (1889) (with a bibliog.) ; Charles DeKay, Life and Works of A. L. Barye (1889), published by the Barye Monument Assoc. of New York ; Roger Ballu, L'Oeuvre de Barye (189o) .