Sketches of Snakes

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/24/1980	Examination	examined for loan
1/01/1981	Treatment	re-housed
1/01/2002	Treatment	examined for exhibition; re-housed; mounted; cleaned

Exhibitions

• Sculptors' Drawings Over Six Centuries, 1400-1950. The Drawing Center, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston. 1981.
• 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 Collection Vildieu-Barye; Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.

Inscriptions four sketches of snakes also on verso

Credit Museum purchase, 1949