Tiger at Rest

ca. 1830s-1840s

54.3 cm 36.5 cm

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A Bengal tiger gazes directly at the viewer. Working in a technique popularized by British watercolorists in the early 19th century, Barye used thin washes of color to capture the atmospheric effects in the cloudy sky and to suggest the indistinct forms in the landscape.

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Barye Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 7-12, 1876, lot 164; Mme Veuve Barye, Paris; 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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