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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.340
People
Antoine Louis Barye, French (Paris, France 1796 - 1875 Paris, France)
Title
A Jaguar in a Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1833
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298218

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, gouache, pastel, and lead-white, with scratching and light varnish, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 18.5 x 23.1 cm (7 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, lower right: Barye.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Baron Henri de Rothschild, Paris; acquired from him through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, June 1931; 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
1943.340
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Charles Otto Zieseniss, Les aquarelles de Barye: Étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Charles Massin (Paris, 1954), p. 69, co. C4, 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, repro.
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 2, 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. 2, 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
  • 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/04/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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