Seated Lion No. 1

cast ca. 1847

31.8 cm 36.5 cm 19.1 cm

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In 1846, the government of King Louis-Philippe commissioned Barye to produce a life-size statue of a seated lion, which was installed in the Tuileries Gardens near his "Lion and Serpent" of 1833. Unlike the earlier sculpture, which conveyed a sense of the drama associated with...

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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