Bear in a Trough

modeled 1832; cast 1876-1889

13.3 cm 11.4 cm 9.8 cm

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A bear lies in its water trough holding food between its paws. When Barye exhibited a plaster of this sculpture at the Paris Salon in 1833, he titled it "Alpine Bear." A cast in bronze by Honoré Gonon was subsequently purchased along with the "Dead Gazelle" by the duke of Orlé...

Sculpture

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William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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