Lioness and Cubs

Antoine-Louis Barye

possibly 1832 · Lithograph · Drawings and Prints

Barye's skills as a lithographer are demonstrated in this freely drawn family group. The inert form of the sleeping lioness is contrasted with the wide-eyed stares of her wary cubs. Studies of lions, which the artist made in the Zoological Gardens in Paris, underpin the careful foreshortening of the recumbent adult.

Artist

Antoine-Louis Barye

Date

possibly 1832

Medium

Lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951