Antoine Lonls Bakye, a French sculptor, born in Paris, Sept. 24, 1795. He perfected his studies under Bosio and Gros, and acquired reputation in 1831 by his group representing a tiger and a crocodile, in M. Thiers' possession. In 1848-'51 he held an office in the Louvre museum, where he also had his studio. In 1850 ho became a teacher of the art of designing subjects in natural history at Versailles, and afterward taught in the Louvre from 1854, and in the museum of the botanical garden from 1856. He executed allegorical statues for the pavilion of the new Louvre; produced many works relating to mythological and historical subjects; statuettes of Gaston de Foix, Napoleon, and Charles VI. (the last executed after his model by the late princess Marie d'Orleans); the "Three Graces," the "Amazon," "Angelica," two of his daughters (since dead), and other fine female figures. His works most admired for their anatomical and physiological qualities and monumental grandeur are his bronze groups of animals, as his lion crushing a boar, and his other lions in the garden of the Tuileries; his panther and gazelle in the collection of the duke de Luynes; his little bears playing; his tiger devouring a goat in the Lyons museum; and his jaguar feasting upon a hare, purchased as a plaster model by the French government in 1850, and exhibited in bronze at the Paris expositions of 1852 and 1855. In 1833 he became chevalier and in 1855 officer of the legion of honor; received the gold medal of honor at the exhibition of 1855; took a prominent part in the London exhibition of 1862; and in 1868 became a mem-her of the academy of fine arts.

Gonon's revival of the renaissance method of modelling bronze statues at the first casting from waste wax (cireperdue) is successfully applied to many of Barye's works.