Tiger

mid-19th century

Antoine-Louis Barye

Artist, French, 1795 - 1875

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 14.61 × 23.5 cm (5 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.136.172

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

A. Marmontel (sale Hôtel Drouot, 28-29 March 1898, no. 117); William A. Clark (1839-1925); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1926; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1925

  • Carroll, Dana. H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. [unpublished ms.], 1925: part I, 161, no. 140.

1928

  • Illustrated Handbook of The W. A. Clark Collection. Washington, DC, 1928: 33.

1932

  • Corcoran Gallery of Art. Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection. Washington, 1932: 35.

1954

  • Zieseniss, Charles-Otto. Les aquarelles de Barye; étude critique et catalogue raisonné. Paris, 1955, 68, no. B 41, pl. 15.

1988

  • Robinson, Lilien F., and Edward J. Nygren. Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection. Washington, 1988: 61, 63, fig. 73 (chapter on Barye's watercolors by Martina Roudabush Norelli).

Inscriptions

center right in watercolor: BARYE; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 4699

Wikidata ID

Q64536243

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