Two Arab Horsemen Killing a Lion

modeled ca. 1838; first issued 1847-1848

37.5 cm 38 cm 25.5 cm

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An Arab hunter, mounted on a rearing horse, thrusts his spear down the throat of the lion. His companion, armed with a musket, climbs over the back of his fallen horse. In the course of his career, Barye issued a number of works repeating various elements of the duke of Orléan...

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3071
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William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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