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| Keywords: Antoine-Louis Barye - "Surtout de table" - Lion Hunt - Walters 27174 - Profile.jpg In this North African scene two Arab hunters pursue a lion and lioness which in turn have been gnawing a fallen water buffalo The horsemen's billowing garments add to the sense of drama Scholars have suggested that the shallow frieze-like quality of this sculpture was inspired by a Roman sculptural relief such as those found on the sides of a sarcophagus between 1834 1837 bronze with brown patina over a metallic flake or powdered surface with extensive traces of gilding particularly on the stirrup of the lead horse cm 45 7 67 3 30 5 accession number 27 174 1985 Duc d'Orléans 1834 by commission duchesse d'Orleans Sale Paris January 18-20 1853 no 3 or 4 Count Anatole Demidoff Sale Paris April 21 1870 no 167 Montessier G Mallais Sale Paris 1882 no 147 Georges Sortais Henry Walters Baltimore June 17 1898 by purchase George A Lucas as agent Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters 1898 Signature Cast through from model BARYE / 1837; Transcription Inscribed on base BRONZE D'UN SEUL JET SANS CISELURE/ coule a l'hotel d'Angevilliers par Honore Gonon et ses deux fils; Translation Inscribed on base Only bronze cast without carving/ cast at the Hotel D'Angevilliers by Honoré Gonon and his two sons Un âge d'or des arts décoratifs 1814-1848 Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris 1991 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 Untamed The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum Palm Beach 2007-2008 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye Sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Statues of hunters 19th-century bronze statues in the United States House of Demidov's collections | ||||
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