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| Keywords: Antoine-Louis Barye - Lapith Combating a Centaur - Walters 2736 - Profile.jpg The hero Theseus has leapt on Bianor's back and seized him by the neck as he prepares to deliver a deadly blow Barye has depicted an incident from The Metamorphoses a history of the world by the Roman poet Ovid 43 BC-AD 17 In ancient Greece the Lapiths a mythical people of Thessaly invited to the centaurs to a wedding The centaurs were mythical creatures half man and half horse who roamed Arcadia a region of Greece and were notoriously destructive All the centaurs were killed following a fight that erupted when they tried to carry off the Lapith women modeled 1846-1848 bronze with dark green over dark brown-black patina cm 34 6 38 1 13 7 accession number 27 36 37364 William T Walters Baltimore prior to 1889 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters before 1889 Signature Cast through from model BARYE Exhibited at the Salon 1850 Musée du Louvre The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye American Art Gallery New York New York 1889-1890 Untamed The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum Palm Beach 2007-2008 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Salon of 1850 Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs Barye Theseus and the Centaur | ||||
