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Sketch Relating to "Lion and Python"
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This work is related to a finished watercolor showing a lion encountering a python (WAM 37.831). This sketch is annotated in French with the colors to be used for the snake’s skin – “white,” “purplish gray,” “chocolate,” and “yellow.” Barye uses tracing paper to more easily transfer elements of a composition he was happy with to the final working surface
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
Exhibitions
| 2024-2025 | Reinstallation 2024: Art and Process. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2007-2008 | Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach. |
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 7 3/4 x W: 8 5/8 in. (19.7 x 21.9 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1949
Location in Museum
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.2068