Python Swallowing a Doe (First Version)
An enormous python has coiled itself around a helpless deer and prepares to swallow it. Barye became familiar with pythons in 1838, when a reptile house was opened at the Jardin des Plantes. Among its first inhabitants were two pythons from Java, Indonesia.
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10789
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sculpture
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normalized
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Sichel Sale, 1886; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1886, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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| language |
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en
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1
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.101_3Qtr_TR_T05IV.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.101_3Qtr_TR_T05IV.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.101_3Qtr_TR_T05IV.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.101 |
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