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| Keywords: Antoine-Louis Barye - Portrait Medallion of Émile Diaz - Walters 27545.jpg Émile Diaz 1835-60 was the son of the painter Virgile-Narcisse Diaz de la Peña 1808-76 Barye's friend and colleague in the village of Barbizon Like his father Émile trained to become a landscape painter; tragically he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 Two medallions were made one was set in the face of Émile's tomb at the cemetery of Montmartre in Paris; the other this piece was presented by the grieving father to his friend and patron Alfred Sensier 1860 bronze with traces of green over red-brown patina D 2 1/4 x Diam 15 3/16 in 5 7 x 38 6 cm accession number 27 545 38283 Alfred Sensier date and mode of acquisition unknown J Montaignac Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown French and Company New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1951 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S and A P Fund 1951 Signature Inscribed under shoulder BARYE; Transcription Inscribed in ink on reverse Offert à Son Ami Sensier comme souvenir de son fils N Diaz; Translation Inscribed in ink on reverse Offered to his friend Sensier as a memory of his son N Diaz 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 Portraits of Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Medallions in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
