Antoine-Louis Barye
Jaguar Devouring a Hare
1849
Physical Qualities
Bronze, 16 x 40 x 18 in. (40.6 x 101.6 x 45.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchased in Honor of Stiles Tuttle Colwill on his 50th Birthday with funds contributed by his Friends and Colleagues
Object Number
2003.199
Jaguar crouching on all four legs with a hare's twisted body lying on its back between the jaguar's forepaws. The jaguar is biting the hare between its hind legs. The jaguar's proper right foreleg is forward with the hare's right hind leg resting on it; the jaguar's left foreleg is back and resting near the hare's right foreleg. The hare's head with its mouth open is resting on the ground near the jaguar's proper left foreleg. The jaguar's tail is curved down and around to the proper right.
Base: oval ground; no rim
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2003; Christie's, New York, October 28, 2003; Private Collection, New Jersey
Dorothy Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, Steven Nash; BMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," Dallas, January 21 - April 29, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 9 - September 16, 2007; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 28, 2007- February 3, 2008, cat. no. 146, p. 178, ill. pp. 103, 104.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA Today, January - February 2004, p.15, ill.
Christie's New York: "19th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Works of Art and Ceramics," Sale 1291, October 28, 2003, lot 224, p. 207.
Kosinski, Dorothy, Jay McKean Fisher, and Steven Nash. Matisse: Painter as Sculptor. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art: Nasher Sculpture Center; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, pages 103-104, cat. no. 146.
Inscribed: Signed: BARYE
