Lion About to Strike a Serpent (Lion la patte levée sur un serpent) or (Esquisse du lion des Tuileries)

Antoine-Louis Barye

modeled 1832, executed before 1847 · Bronze, brown patina · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Originally modeled in 1832; this is the third casting. For another example of this subject in the Museum's collection, see 39.65.57. This piece is a small variant of Barye's Lion Crushing a Serpent which was bought by the French government and placed in the Tuileries Gardens in 1835. The Metropolitan Museum has a small model of this piece (see 10.108.3), as well as a plaster cast of the Tuileries bronze (89.9).

Artist

Antoine-Louis Barye

Date

modeled 1832, executed before 1847

Medium

Bronze, brown patina

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Miss G. Louise Robinson, 1940