""Surtout de table"": Lion Hunt
In this North African scene, two Arab hunters pursue a lion and lioness, which, in turn, have been gnawing a fallen water buffalo. The horsemen's billowing garments add to the sense of drama. Scholars have suggested that the shallow, frieze-like quality of this sculpture was i...
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Duc d'Orléans, 1834, by commission; duchesse d'Orleans Sale, Paris, January 18-20, 1853, no. 3 or 4; Count Anatole Demidoff Sale, Paris, April 21, 1870, no. 167; Montessier; G. Mallais Sale, Paris, 1882, no. 147; Georges Sortais; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 17, 1898, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.174_Prof_TR_T05II.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.174 |
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