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| Keywords: Antoine-Louis Barye - "Surtout de table" - Tiger Hunt - Walters 27176 - Profile.jpg One can imagine this hunting scene taking place in the exotic East This sculpture originally stood on a five-foot-high gilt-bronze triumphal arch in the middle of the duke of Orléans's centerpiece Three Indians perched in the box-like howda defend themselves from a tiger clawing its way up the elephant's back The driver riding on the elephant's neck is about to strike the tiger with his barbed goad A second tiger already wounded by a spear seizes one of the elephant's rear feet Barye derived this subject from various sources including a 17th-century Persian miniature The inscription around the sculpture's base identifies the piece as having been cast by Honoré Gonon and his two sons using the more costly lost-wax process rather than sand casting Gonon was credited with reviving this technique which faithfully replicates the details of the original model between 1834 1836 bronze lost-wax cast with brown varnish patina over a metallic flake or powdered surface with details highlighted by leaf gilding cm 70 5 35 6 accession number 27 176 29585 Duc d'Orléans 1834 by commission duchesse d'Orleans Sale Paris 1853 no 1 Count Anatole Demidoff M Jaunez as agent San Donato Sale Paris March 22-24 1870 cat 1536 Philippe Burty William T Walters Baltimore February 20 1872 by purchase George A Lucas as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1872 BARYE 1836 BRONZE D'UN JET SANS CISELURE FONDU A L'HOTEL D'ANGEVILLIERS PAR HONORE GONON ET SES DEUX FILS Bronze cast without carving cast at the Hotel D'Angevilliers by Honoré Gonon and his two sons inscribed W / 48 technique white paint ~ number The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye American Art Gallery A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 Un âge d'or des arts décoratifs 1814-1848 Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris 1991 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet Untamed The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye Exoticism in European culture Exotic decorative artefacts Sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Tiger hunts in art Elephant goad The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye American Art Gallery A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet Untamed The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye House of Demidov's collections | ||||
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