Tracings After Scenes of Tiger Hunts

Description Barye has traced illustrations of Europeans hunting tigers published in 1829 by William Harvey in his "Tower Menagerie," a history of the royal menagerie in the Tower of London. Sketched on the left is a running elephant in a pose similar to the one in Barye's "Tiger Hunt."

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/01/2002	Treatment	examined for exhibition; repaired; other

Exhibitions

• 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.

Provenance Mme Vildieu-Barye; Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase, 1949