Python Crushing a Crocodile

Antoine-Louis Baryemodel 1841, cast by 1873

Details

Title: Python Crushing a Crocodile
Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye
Date Created: model 1841, cast by 1873
Physical Dimensions: overall: 16.19 × 38.74 × 14.61 cm (6 3/8 × 15 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.)
Provenance: Purchased 1873 from the artist by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] The sculpture is one of 116 bronzes acquired in two groups directly from the artist, one in 1873 and the other in 1874. According to the _Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art_, the group acquired in 1873 was selected for the Corcoran by William T. Walters, the prominent Baltimore collector and a Corcoran trustee, "in company with Barye." (See: "_Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art_," 1873-1946, Record Group 5.1 [COR.0005.1.RG], Gallery registrar's office records, 1869-2007, Series 1: Accessions 1869- [inclusive], Special Collections Research Center, George Washington University Libraries, Washington, DC; accessed on-line 30 November 2016: https://archive.org/details/corc_registerofbronzes).
Rights: CC0
Medium: bronze

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