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Source Description
An Asian elephant, perhaps the one that arrived at the Jardin des Plantes in 1843, lies asleep in a small clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Hints of red and yellow in the right background suggest that it is evening.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
20466
label
Elephant Asleep
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
20466
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Elephant Asleep
description
An Asian elephant, perhaps the one that arrived at the Jardin des Plantes in 1843, lies asleep in a small clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Hints of red and yellow in the right background suggest that it is evening.
provenance
Émile Gavet, Paris; Antoine-François Marmontel; Vente Marmontel, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 25-26, 1883, lot 12; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1883, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1850s-1860s
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
watercolors (paintings)
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
27.3
height
38.4
dimensionsRaw
H: 10 3/4 x W: 15 1/8 in. (27.3 x 38.4 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] At bottom right in black watercolor: BARYE; [Number] In graphite in lower left corner
on verso: 3; [Number] Scribbled over in graphite below ""3"": 6; [Label] On back of mounting board: Emile Gavet
27 Quai Saint-Michel (and) Collection de M. Marmontel.
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watercolor with gum heightening on rough, thick, cream wove paper
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collection_ids
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exhibition_ids
1956
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2186
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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3c8d4cd7dfd1681f
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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no