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Antoine-Louis Barye and Heilbroner

Leopard

Original model 1831; this cast n.d.

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Leopard

Original model 1831; this cast n.d.

Physical Qualities Bronze, Overall: 3 1/16 × 5 5/8 × 1/4 in. (7.8 × 14.3 × 0.6 cm.) (including relief modeling) Framed: 4 1/4 × 7 1/16 × 7/8 in. (10.8 × 17.9 × 2.2 cm.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.406
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."

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