Large Lion

early 1830s

49.7 cm 32.4 cm

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"Large Lion" shows a monumental lion staring directly at the viewer. Barye places the animal against an expansive landscape and an almost surreal orange sunset. This watercolor demonstrates well Barye's idiosyncratic technique of building up his surfaces in a manner similar t...

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Barye Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 7-12, 1876, lot 166; Hector Brame (1831-1899), Paris; William T. Walters, Baltimore, January 27, 1887, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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