Sketch Relating to ""Lion and Python""

ca. 1863

21.9 cm 19.7 cm

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This work is related to a finished watercolor showing a lion encountering a python (WAM 37.831). This sketch is annotated in French with the colors to be used for the snake’s skin – “white,” “purplish gray,” “chocolate,” and “yellow.” Barye uses tracing paper to more easily tr...

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Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
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