Keywords: Antoine-Louis Barye - Tiger Walking - Walters 37824.jpg 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 s 1850 watercolor with gum heightening on moderately textured moderately thick beige wove paper cm 27 2 37 9 accession number 37 824 13499 William T Walters Baltimore before 1889 mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters before 1889 BARYE in dark brown watercolor at left lower edge; 20 in graphite at lower left corner verso The Essence of Line The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye American Art Gallery New York New York 1889-1890 The Road to Impressionism Landscapes from Corot to Manet The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2004-2005 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 France Walters Art Museum license 2D The Essence of Line Paintings of tigers by Antoine-Louis Barye French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Watercolor paintings of tigers |