Antoine-Louis Barye
Wolf Seizing a Stag by the Throat
1842-1924
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Antoine-Louis Barye
Wolf Seizing a Stag by the Throat
1842-1924
Physical Qualities
Bronze, brown patina, 9-1/2 H x 19 L x 6-1/4 D
Credit Line
Gift from the Descendants of Marian and Sidney Lansburgh
Object Number
1998.118
Wolf crouching under a stag's neck and biting it in the throat. The stag's proper right foreleg is stretched forward, and its proper left hind leg is bent. The stag's head (with large spread antlers) is bent over the wolf's head. Base: oval rocky ground; no rim attached to oval green marble plinth.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; from Richard Lansburgh, Baltimore; estate of his mother, Marian Lansburgh (née Epstein), Baltimore; from her father, Jacob Epstein, Baltimore
Pivar: A31 (p.117) 21 x 37 cm. Photo in book: Photograph courtesy of The Baltimore Museum of Art.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, "Barye Catalogue Raisonné des Sculptures," Paris: Gallimard, 2000, pl. 116, p.158.
Lillian M. Burgunder, "Antoine-Louis Barye Sculptures and Decorative Objects in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," September 2006, p. 132.
Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, "Barye Catalogue Raisonné des Sculptures," Paris: Gallimard, 2000, pl. 116, p.158.
Lillian M. Burgunder, "Antoine-Louis Barye Sculptures and Decorative Objects in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," September 2006, p. 132.
Inscribed: Signature: BARYE
