Keywords: Antoine-Louis Barye - Lion and Python - Walters 37831.jpg 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 ca 1863 watercolor on heavily textured thick cream wove paper cm 27 3 37 1 accession number 37 831 28031 William T Walters Baltimore December 23 1863 by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1863 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 The Essence of Line 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 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license 2D The Essence of Line Paintings of lions Drawings and paintings by Antoine-Louis Barye French paintings in the Walters Art Museum |