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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.338
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
Two Jaguars in Their Lair; verso: slight sketch, graphite
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
after 1848
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298204

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache, with scratching and varnish, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 10.5 x 17.5 cm (4 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: red ink, lower left: Barye.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
(?) Liard (Zieseniss 1954, no. C29); Jerome Stonborough; his sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, October 17, 1940, no. 8 ($220); acquired at that sale through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.338
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Otto Zieseniss, Les aquarelles de Barye: Étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Charles Massin (Paris, 1954), pg. 72, no. C29, repro.
  • Jeanne L. Wasserman and Arthur Beale, Sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1982), pg. 94
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 4, repr.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 3, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

Verification Level

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