Description
This statuette of an owl clutching a mouse in its talons may have been cast in the 1820s, but it did not appear in an edition until about 1870.
Exhibitions
The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York. 1889-1890.
Provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.