""Surtout de table"": Tiger Hunt

1834-1836

81 cm 73 cm 34 cm

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One can imagine this hunting scene taking place in the exotic East. This sculpture originally stood on a five-foot-high, gilt-bronze triumphal arch in the middle of the duke of Orléans's centerpiece. Three Indians, perched in the box-like howda, defend themselves from a tiger...

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Duc d'Orléans, 1834, by commission; duchesse d'Orleans Sale, Paris, 1853, no. 1; Count Anatole Demidoff [M. Jaunez as agent]; San Donato Sale, Paris, March 22-24, 1870, cat. 1536; Philippe Burty; William T. Walters, Baltimore, February 20, 1872, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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