Boa [Python] Devouring a Doe

Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795 - 1875)19th century

Despite the title, the drawing is related to Barye's bronze, "Python Killing a Gnu," (Walters 27.152).

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Title: Boa [Python] Devouring a Doe
Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795 - 1875)
Date Created: 19th century
Subject Keywords: animal; snake; deer; doe
External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
Roles: Artist: Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795 - 1875)
Provenance: Mme Vildieu-Barye; Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
Object Type: sketches; drawings; leaves
Medium: graphite on tracing paper
Inscriptions: [Stamp] Stamped in lower right: Collection/ Vildieu-Barye.
Exhibitions: 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., The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma. 2005-2006.
Dimensions: 4 15/16 x 13 5/8 in. (12.5 x 34.6 cm)
Credit Line: Museum purchase, 1949
Classification: Painting & Drawing
Accession Number: 37.2073

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