Tiger Asleep

ca. 1850s-1860s

41.9 cm 32.1 cm

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In this dark, stormy scene, the tiger has coiled himself up as though asleep. Barye altered the composition when applying the pigments, and the outlines of the original placement of the tiger have become visible through the paint surface. Sleeping tigers in simiar poses occur...

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Mme Barye; Vente Barye, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 5-6, 1876, no. 67; William T. Walters, Baltimore, January 17, 1885, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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