Lion au serpent (Lion des Tuileries)

1832

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Antoine-Louis Barye

Lion au serpent (Lion des Tuileries)

1832

Physical Qualities Bronze, 22 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (57.2 x 74.9 x 39.4 cm.)

Credit Line The Jacob Epstein Collection

Object Number 1951.125

Seated lion on rocky terrain with head bent downward and turned to proper left, snarling mouth open, holding down a coiled serpent with its proper right forepaw (claws extended). The lion's proper left foreleg is resting on the ground, and its tail, also resting on the ground, is curled around its proper left hind flank. The serpent's head is raised, mouth open, fangs exposed, and forked tongue extended with tip resting on ground. The serpent's tail is coiled around lion's proper right foreleg. The tip of proper right side of forked tongue is broken off. Base: irregular oval ground; no rim.

The Baltimore Museum of Art on deposit; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1929-1951; the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, by bequest, 1945

Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, February 7-March 7, 1965.

Fogg Art Museum, "Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Scupture", November 1975 - January 7, 1976

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, "Antoine-Louis Barye, Romantic Sculptor", June 18-September 3, 2006

Jacob Epstein, The Jacob Epstein Collection, Baltimore, 1939, p. 29.

Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collector' Club, 1974, p. 124, no. A39.

"Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture," Fogg Art Museum, exhibition catalog, 1975.

Inscribed: Signature: BARYE