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Tiger Walking
Antoine-Louis Barye1850s
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
The animal sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye regularly visited the Forest of Fontainebleau from the late 1840s and rented a house at Barbizon starting in 1867. In his watercolors, he created imaginary scenes by inserting wild animals he had seen in the zoo into the Fontainebleau landscape. Here, a tiger appears against the barren rocks and sands of the Gorges d'Apremont.
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- Title: Tiger Walking
- Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795 - 1875)
- Date Created: 1850s
- Subject Keywords: animal
- 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: William T. Walters, Baltimore, before 1889 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Object Type: watercolors
- Medium: watercolor with gum heightening on moderately textured, moderately thick, beige wove paper
- Inscriptions: "BARYE" in dark brown watercolor at left lower edge; "20" in graphite at lower left corner, verso
- Exhibitions: The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York. 1889-1890., 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., The Road to Impressionism: Landscapes from Corot to Manet. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2004-2005., From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2014-2016.
- Dimensions: H: 10 11/16 x W: 14 15/16 in. (27.2 x 37.9 cm)
- Credit Line: Acquired by William T. Walters, before 1889
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.824
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