Lion and Snake, No. 1

ca. 1850

18 cm 26 cm 35.9 cm

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First exhibited as a plaster cast at the Paris Salon of 1833, Lion and Serpent may be regarded as one of Barye's most significant masterpieces. In showing an animal subject rather than a figurative work, Barye broke with prevailing academic conventions. King Louis-Philippe com...

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William T. Walters, Baltimore, by 1889; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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