Turtle

before 1845

10.5 cm 3.2 cm 7 cm

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The turtle, which was probably intended to serve as a paperweight, has been rendered with extraordinary attention to realistic detail. This may have been an instance in which Barye had a plaster cast made from a living animal.

Sculpture

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18041
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sculpture
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normalized
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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2
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