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A North American brown bear walks through a landscape dotted with large boulders and stubby pine trees characteristic of those found in the Forest of Fontainebleau.

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Document identity
localId
9658
label
Walking Bear
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
9658
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Walking Bear
description
A North American brown bear walks through a landscape dotted with large boulders and stubby pine trees characteristic of those found in the Forest of Fontainebleau.
provenance
Charles Binder; Charles Binder Estate Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 8, 1873, lot 6; Georges Petit, Paris; William T. Walters, Baltimore, November 1875, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1850s-1860s
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
watercolors (paintings)
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
23.5
height
29.7
dimensionsRaw
H: 9 1/4 x W: 11 11/16 in. (23.5 x 29.7 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] In red-brown watercolor at lower right
on recto: BARYE; [Number] In graphite at upper left corner
on verso: 124; [Number] In graphite at lower left
on verso: 11; [Watermark] Whatman Turkey Mill.
med
watercolor on moderately textured, moderately thick, beige wove paper
creator_ids
6082
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
1956
2069
631
872
906
919
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
e1efd12885326d19
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
22f9638f09883f7c
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no