Tracings After Scenes of Tiger Hunts

second quarter 19th century

33 cm 21 cm

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Barye has traced illustrations of Europeans hunting tigers published in 1829 by William Harvey in his "Tower Menagerie," a history of the royal menagerie in the Tower of London. Sketched on the left is a running elephant in a pose similar to the one in Barye's "Tiger Hunt."

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