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| Keywords: Antoine-Louis Barye - Python in a Tree - Walters 37817.jpg Python in a Tree represents a snake coiled around branches in a lush verdant tropical forest setting This work dates from Barye's maturity in the 1850s to 1860s and is among his most colorful watercolors This is especially evident in the flecks of blue red pink and orange that animate the snake's skin Barye defines the animal's shape in pen and India ink making it stand out in relief and giving it a three-dimensional quality He also demonstrates his penchant for scraping away paint particularly in the two lowest loops of the snake's tail where his vigorous scraping to a degree rarely seen in the output of any 19th-century draftsman reveals clearly the fibrous nature of the paper below ca 1850 1860 watercolor with scraping and gum varnish on cream thick wove paper cm 27 37 accession number 37 817 8029 Charles Binder date and mode of acquisition unknown Charles Binder Estate Sale Hôtel Drouot Paris April 8 1873 lot no 2 Galerie Georges Petit Paris William T Walters city Baltimore Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by William T Walters 1883 BARYE in lower right in red watercolor; no 82 and 4 on reverse in graphite The Essence of Line The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye American Art Gallery New York New York 1889-1890 Barye Sculpture and Drawings American Federation of Arts New York 1959-1960 A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 A Supple Brush The Flowering of Continental Watercolors The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 Millet and His Barbizon Contemporaries Keio Department Store Tokyo 1985 The Wild Kingdom of Antoine-Louis Barye 1795-1875 Wildenstein Company New York 1994 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D The Essence of Line Drawings and paintings by Antoine-Louis Barye French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
