All Creatures Great and Small: the Animalier of Antoinelouis Barye November 30, 2011

On loan from a private Evansville collection, the exhibition 'All Creatures Great and Small: The Animalier of Antoinelouis Barye' will be exhibited in the Museum's new second floor Alcove Gallery. Antoine-Louis Barye was the first - and perhaps the greatest - of a group of 19th-century French sculptors called "Les Animaliers." "Animalier" was originally a term derogatorily applied to sculptors who saw the subject of animals worthy in its own right of artistic consideration. Barye's miniatures of animals were criticized as "mere paperweights" and his work was ignored until the revitalization of interest in Natural History at mid-century.