Eagle and Snake
This plaque was intended to be mounted on a piece of furniture or set in the base of a clock. The reliefs of the ferocious eagles attacking their prey are, in their intense drama, closely associated with early 19th-century Romanticism. This particular example was cast by the f...
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Sculpture
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34740
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sculpture
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normalized
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William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to November 1889 [He may have purchased this relief from Fannière Frères, who lent a cast of this subject, no. 387, to the Paris ""Exposition Barye""]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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