Lion and Python

ca. 1863

37.1 cm 27.3 cm

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In a desolate landscape, a lion dramatically confronts a snake. In a letter to a patron, Barye identified the lion as coming from Senegal. The sculptor, late in life, has returned to a subject that he had first explored in sculpture in 1832-33.

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Purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, December 23, 1863 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 167.
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