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Stalking Lion
Antoine-Louis Baryeca. 1830
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Barye could have drawn this rough sketch of a lion from life at the Jardin des Plantes.
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Details
- Title: Stalking Lion
- Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795 - 1875)
- Date Created: ca. 1830
- Subject Keywords: animal; lion; cat; feline
- 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 paper
- Geography: Place of Origin: Paris
- 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: H: 5 1/2 x W: 3 15/16 in. (14 x 10 cm)
- Credit Line: Museum purchase, 1949
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.2123
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