Two Heads of a Lioness
Barye's friend the Count of Rigny, a French admiral, donated two African lions to the Jardin des Plantes. One, a lioness, died in October 1828, and the other, a male lion, perished the following June. In this drawing, Barye has carefully recorded the structure of the lioness's...
Drawing
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31179
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drawing
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normalized
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Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
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CC0
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en
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1
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2037 |
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