Physical Qualities
Bronze, gold-brown patina, 6-1/4 H x 15-1/16 L x 5-3/4 D in.
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.46.42
A python tightly coiled around a crocodile. The python's body is also coiled around itself; the pythons's head, mouth open, emerges in the center of the sculpture. Base: oval natural ground (foliage; stippled ground); no rim.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; from Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, by gift 1910; from Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George Aloysius Lucas, Paris
Eugene Leake, The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, January 12-13, 1971.
The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, November 12-December 27, 1970.
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery for the Blind, Raleigh, NC, "Antoine Louis Barye Exhibition", September 1-November 6, 1972.
The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, November 12-December 27, 1970.
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery for the Blind, Raleigh, NC, "Antoine Louis Barye Exhibition", September 1-November 6, 1972.
Inscribed: Signed on base 'A.L.BARYE'; 'F.BARBEDIENNE.FONDEUR'. Two labels on bttom of base: L.64.15.50; BMA cat. #395. Stamp on side of base: 'FB'.
