Walking Wolf

Description A ferocious-looking, striding wolf walks bares its teeth. This unique cast is fastened to a black marble plinth bearing a plaque inscribed: To his friend Rousseau / His admirer A. L. Barye. Since the 1840s, Barye had been a friend of Théodore Rousseau (1812-67), the landscape specialist who was regarded as the leader of the Barbizon school of painters.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
9/16/1963	Treatment	cleaned; coated
11/05/1975	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York. 1889-1890.
• 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 Gaston Camentron [former employee of Hector Brame]; William T. Walters, July 28, 1888, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] a l'ami ROUSSEAU / son admirateur A. L. Barye

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, 1888