1837
French
bronze
Place Made,France
Overall: 10 1/8 × 16 × 6 1/4 in. (25.72 × 40.64 × 15.88 cm)
2012.81
Not on view
This fine bronze is remarkable for its New World subject, which the sculptor would have known from live specimens in the Jardin des Plantes, the Parisian zoo where Barye served as professor of drawing.
sand cast bronze
Signed and dated on base: "Barye 1837"
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Endowment for Decorative Arts
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