Boa [Python] Devouring a Doe

Description Despite the title, the drawing is related to Barye's bronze, "Python Killing a Gnu," (Walters 27.152).

Conservation

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

Exhibitions

• The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma. 2005-2006.
• 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.

Inscriptions [Stamp] Stamped in lower right: Collection/ Vildieu-Barye.

Credit Museum purchase, 1949