Fallow Deer Attacked by Two Algerian Greyhounds

modeled ca. 1830

32.7 cm 33 cm 21 cm

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Barye usually showed dogs not as domestic pets but as hunters pursuing prey. In this unique sculpture, two greyhounds have pursued a small European deer to the point of their quarry's collapse.

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Barye Estate Sale, Paris, 1876, no. 4543; A. Sichel; William T. Walters, Baltimore, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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