Python Swallowing a Roe-Deer

ca. 1840s

32.1 cm 21.6 cm

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Although the pythons in the Jardin des Plantes were fed only small rodents, Barye was intrigued with literary accounts of these snakes swallowing much larger mammals.

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Purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, May 7, 1883 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 563.
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