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Seated Lion No. 1
(18th and 19th Centuries )
In 1846, the government of King Louis-Philippe commissioned Barye to produce a life-size statue of a seated lion, which was installed in the Tuileries Gardens near his "Lion and Serpent" of 1833. Unlike the earlier sculpture, which conveyed a sense of the drama associated with the 1830 revolution, this majestic lion symbolizes strength and force, virtues associated with the seemingly stable Orléans monarchy. Twenty-one years later, a duplicate of the "Seated Lion" was cast from the original statue to form a pair. They were then installed flanking an entrance to the Louvre Palace used by Napoleon III. The Walters' bronze, a reduction of the Louvre sculptures, was cast in three sections. It served as a foundry model for producing sand-cast sculptures.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 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. |
| 2006 | A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of Nineteenth Century French Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
| 1889-1890 | The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York. |
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
14 3/8 x 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (36.5 x 31.8 x 19.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters, before 1889
Location in Museum
Hackerman House at 1 West Mount Vernon Place: First Floor: Parlor
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
27.120