Physical Qualities
Bronze, brown patina, Overall: 5 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (14.6 x 24.8 x 8.6 cm.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.46.54
Elephant running with proper right foreleg forward and off the ground, and proper left hind leg back and off the ground. The elephant has large tusks; its trunk is held out front and curled down slightly at tip; its ears are flapping and sharply modeled; tail is straight out with the tip curved slightly down. Base: oval ground with stylized lines; no rim.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; from Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, by gift 1910; from Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George Aloysius Lucas, Paris
North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Dulce Biddle Gallery for the Blind, "Antoine Louis Barye Exhibition", September 1-November 1, 1972.
Inscribed: Signed on base: 'BARYE'
