Tiger Devouring An Antelope

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Object Details

Artist
Antoine-Louis Barye, French, b. Paris, 1795–1875
Date
(c. 1830-1831)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
22 1/4 x 10 5/8 x 13 in. (56.6 x 27.2 x 33.2 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.381

Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, sale 1625, 17-19 November 1955, lot. 96, ill.
James Graham and Sons, New York, to 13 December 1963
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 13 December 1963-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
ALAN GALLERY, New York. "The Romantic Temperament," 4-31 December 1961, no. 4.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Animal in Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 17 November 1977-15 January 1978, no. 4, ill. p. 8.

LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), no. 43, ill. cat. p. 662.
BRITSCH, RALPH A. and TODD A. BRITSCH. The Arts in Western Culture (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984), fig. 13-5, p. 306.
LAVINE, SIGMUND A. Wonders of Tigers (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987), ill. p. 25.
See file for further info.

Signature
Incised On Left Rear: Barye
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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