Elephants

ca. 1867

32.7 cm 24.4 cm

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Three Asian elephants graze on a desolate plain at sunset; the warm tones of the sky are repeated in the landscape. Barye's close friend at Barbizon, the landscape painter Théodore Rousseau (1812-67), is thought to have owned this watercolor.

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Théodore Rousseau, 1867, by purchase [from the artist (?)]; Vente Rousseau, April 27-May 2, 1868; William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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