Jaguar Devouring a Hare

modeled 1850

96.5 cm 41.3 cm 43.2 cm

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Barye contrasts the powerful, broadly rendered muscular build of the jaguar with the more detailed, limp body of the terror-stricken hare. The cat's ears are pressed against its head and its features are convulsed in fury as it prepares to devour the entrails of its prey.At th...

Sculpture

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1098
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Ferdinand Barbedienne; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1884, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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