Unknown Artist and Antonio Canova
Guardian Lion
1832-1865
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Physical Qualities
Marble, Without Base: 24 1/4 × 48 3/4 × 20 7/8 in. (61.6 × 123.8 × 53 cm.)
Base: 9 3/4 × 48 × 23 3/4 in. (24.8 × 121.9 × 60.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift from the Estate of Margaret Anna Abell
Object Number
1977.42.14
Male lion is asleep.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1977; estate of Margaret Anna Abell, Baltimore
Jacques Kelly, "Grave issues of some note," The Sun, Maryland Section, May 27, 1996, B-1and B-5.
Elena Bassi, "Canova," Bergamo, 1943, pl. 34.
Artist
Unknown Artist
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
On View at the BMA
