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BARYE, Antoine-Louis

Paris 1795 - Paris 1875

Tigre attaquant un paon

Tiger Attacking a Peacock

19th century

bronze

group

Dimensions (HxWxD): 6 14 x 17 34 in.

Acc. No.: 65-6/1

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Justin L. Mooney

Photo credit: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Provenance

  • after 1876, Paris, Cast by Barbedienne Foundry
  • by 1961, Kansas City, MO, Mrs. David M. Lighton (born Gertrude Woolf, 1876–1961)
  • by 1961-1965, Kansas City, MO, by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Justin L. Mooney (born Phoebe Lighton, 1907–1981)
  • 1965, Kansas City, MO, Given by Mrs. Justin L. Mooney to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Bibliography

  • Museum's website, may 2014; 11 July 2023
  • 1983 Wasserman
    Jeanne L. Wasserman, Sculpture by Antoine-Lois Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1983, 78, as Tiger Attacking a Peacock
  • 2003 Wolohojian
    Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exhibition catalogue, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, 48-49, (repro.), as Tiger Attacking a Peacock.