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Sketch of Barye's "Lion Lunging at a Boar"

Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795 - 1875) (Artist)
1834-1838
graphite on irregularly shaped brown paper
(18th and 19th Centuries )

This drawing is of one of the four animal combats at the base of "The Tiger Hunt"' in the Duke of Orleans' table centerpiece. The bronze is in the Louvre Museum (accession number OA 5745).

This sheet has drawings on both sides - on the verso is a study of drapery.

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.

Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.

Exhibitions

2007-2008 Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
1/1/2002 Treatment cleaned
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Geographies

France, Paris (Place of Origin)

Measurements

4 3/4 x 4 3/8 in. (12.1 x 11.1 cm)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, 1949

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

37.2228

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