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Source Description
A jaguar, the only member of the panther family native to the Americas, was added to the collection of the Jardin des Plantes in January 1831. It survived only until October 1835. Barye portrays the wild cat in a mountainous landscape.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
16877
label
Running Jaguar
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
16877
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Running Jaguar
description
A jaguar, the only member of the panther family native to the Americas, was added to the collection of the Jardin des Plantes in January 1831. It survived only until October 1835. Barye portrays the wild cat in a mountainous landscape.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1830-1840
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
watercolors (paintings)
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
23.2
height
28.7
dimensionsRaw
H: 9 1/8 x W: 11 5/16 in. (23.2 x 28.7 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] In reddish brown watercolor in lower right corner
on recto: BARYE; [Number] In graphite above center and to left
on verso: 29_3 19_6; [Number] In graphite below center and to right
on verso: no. 32.
med
watercolor on slightly textured, medium thickness, cream wove paper
creator_ids
6082
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
1956
2069
872
906
3191
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
8b2bcad49da4a18e
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
79961aa78d86d116
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no