Walking Lion
model n.d., cast c. 1840/1873
Sculptor, French, 1795 - 1875
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G21
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.54 × 41.59 × 10.48 cm (8 7/8 × 16 3/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.3828
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased 1873 from the artist by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The sculpture is one of 116 bronzes acquired in two groups directly from the artist, one in 1873 and the other in 1874. According to the Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the group acquired in 1873 was selected for the Corcoran by William T. Walters, the prominent Baltimore collector and a Corcoran trustee, "in company with Barye." (See: "Register of Bronzes Etc. Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art," 1873-1946, Record Group 5.1 [COR.0005.1.RG], Gallery registrar's office records, 1869-2007, Series 1: Accessions 1869- [inclusive], Special Collections Research Center, George Washington University Libraries, Washington, DC; accessed on-line 30 November 2016: https://archive.org/details/corc_registerofbronzes).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1984
Animals: Tradition and Fantasy in Animal Sculpture, Public Art Trust, Washington, 20 September 1984 - 20 January 1985.
1988
Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 1988-1990, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1988
Robinson, Lilien F., and Edward J. Nygren. Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection. Washington, 1988: 84.
Wikidata ID
Q63863616