Physical Qualities
Bronze, 3-1/16 H x 5-5/8 L x 1/4 D in. (including relief modeling)
frame: 4-1/2 H x 7-1/16 L x 7/8 D in.
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.406
Bas-relief plaque depicting a leopard waking with its proper right foreleg and proper right hind leg forward; its head raised and mouth open; its tail curled down between its hind legs. The ground is depicted as a shallow straight horizontal line/shelf. The plaque is mounted on a rectangular black marble base with beveled edges and a ring for hanging on wall. Border: no border.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase from unknown art dealer, Paris, 13 Sep. 1901.
"New Dimensions in the Cone Collection," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 9 Aug.-29 Sep. 1974.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection," (Baltimore: BMA, 1955) 44, no. 129.
"Handbook of the Cone Collection, Revised Edition," (Baltimore: BMA, 1967) 69, no. 119.
Stuart Pivar, "The Barye Bronzes," (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Baron Publishing, 1974) 245, no. R10 .
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta," (Baltimore: BMA, 1985) 167.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, "Barye Catalogue raisonne des sculptures," (Paris: Gallimard, 2000) 360, no. A 220.
Inscribed: Signed on front: "BARYE 1831." Back of stone base in black ink: "5872." Back of stone base, BMA accession number: "50.406."
