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Seized by a tiger, the stag emits a final gasp. This sculpture replicates Barye's carving in stone that the government purchased in 1836 for the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyons, France. In addition to bearing Barye's signature, the Walters' version is signed "Soyer." Louis Claude Ferdinand Soyer (1785-1854) was a sculptor, founder, and metal chaser, or finisher. Rather than casting this particular piece in bronze, Soyer employed an electrotype process in which a copper alloy is deposited onto the surface of a mold using a galvanic, or electric, current.
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