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Antoine-Louis Barye: Lion and Python   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Antoine-Louis Barye  (1795–1875)  wikidata:Q451489
 
Antoine-Louis Barye
Description French painter, sculptor and bell founder
Date of birth/death 24 September 1795 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1875 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata 4th arrondissement of Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q451489
Title
Lion and Python
Description
English: In a desolate landscape, a lion dramatically confronts a snake. In a letter to a patron, Barye identified the lion as coming from Senegal. The sculptor, late in life, has returned to a subject that he had first explored in sculpture in 1832-33.
Date circa 1863
date QS:P571,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium watercolor on heavily textured, thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions height: 27.3 cm (10.7 in); width: 37.1 cm (14.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,27.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,37.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.831
Place of creation Paris, France
Object history
Exhibition history
  • The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York. 1889-1890. A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, 1860-1909. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979.
  • The Wild Kingdom of Antoine-Louis Barye, 1795-1875. Wildenstein & Company, New York. 1994.
  • 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.
Credit line Acquired by William T. Walters, 1863
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"BARYE" in brown watercolor on left bottom edge, recto; "P7-491/a" in dark brown ink at center, verso

[Signature] Painted in brown watercolor on left bottom edge on recto: BARYE; [Number] Written in dark brown ink at center on verso: PJ-491/a.
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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