Portrait of Barye with a Wax Model of ""Seated Lion""

1885

93 cm 129 cm

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Walters commissioned this portrait through his fellow Barye enthusiast in Baltimore George Lucas. Barye's having died thirteen years earlier, Bonnat worked from a photograph of the sculptor taken by the respected French photographer Nadar that, along with a wax model of the "S...

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Commissioned by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, January 10, 1885 [1] [2]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Diary of George A. Lucas 18 November 1885.[2] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 601.
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