Antoine-Louis Barye

Antoine-Louis Barye, born in Paris in 1795, began his artistic journey as a goldsmith, a common starting point for many sculptors of the Romantic era. He honed his skills under his father, Pierre, and later with Martin-Guillaume Biennais, a goldsmith to Napoleon. After studying with sculptor François-Joseph Bosio and painter Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1818. However, it was while working for goldsmith Emile Fauconnier around 1823 t…