(FRENCH, 1795-1875) Work of art date to early 1830's. Style: Panther. H: 55.5" by W: 50" Ex-International Museum. Life Size Bronze by Antoine-Louis Barye, signed and marked on each side of the base. This was created by the artist himself during his lifetime. This life-size bronze panther was beautifully cast with amazing details in the lost wax method.signed by the artist. Born in Paris, Barye his career as a goldsmith, like many sculptors of the Romantic period. he first worked under his father, but around 1810 worked under the sculptor Guillaume-Mertin Biennais who was a goldsmith to Napoleon. After studying under sculptor Francois-Joseph Bosio in 1816 and painter Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, he was ( in 1818) admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts. But it was not until 1823, while working for the Fauconnier, the goldsmith that he discovered his true predilection from watching the animals in the Jardin des Plantes, making vigorous studies of them in pencil drawings comparable to those of Delacroiz, then modeling them in sculpture on a large or small scale.