Stag Attacked by a Lynx

modeled ca. 1834; cast 1842

37.5 cm 21.3 cm 24.1 cm

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When a plaster model of this sculpture was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1834, the critic Maurice-Alexandre Decamps commented "Barye's animal combats are little dramas, full of emotion and palpitating with life." This unique bronze cast was commissioned by the duke of Orléan...

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Duchesse d'Orleans, November 22, 1842, by commission; Alexandre Dumas père, by gift; Alexandre Dumas fils; Dumas Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, March 2-3, 1896, no. 129; P. Mathey; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 10, 1903, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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