Sleeping Lions, possibly 1830s

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Medium

watercolor on paper

Dimensions

sheet: 28.58 × 46.04 cm (11 1/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2014.136.207

Artists / Makers

Antoine-Louis Barye (artist) French, 1795 - 1875

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Inscription

center right in red watercolor: BARYE

Provenance

Barye's estate sale, Paris, February 1876, no. 154; (via George A. Lucas, Paris); purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1876; acquired 2014 by National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1875: Catalogue des Oeuvres de Antoine-Louis Barye. École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1875, no. 448.

1889: Catalogue of the Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Galleries, New York, 1889, no. 507.

1962: French Master Drawings: Antoine Louis Barye and Major Landscapists of the Barbizon School. Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, 1962, no. 6 (checklist).

1985: Millet and His Barbizon Contemporaries. Keil Department Store Grand Gallery, Tokyo; Hanshin Department Store Grand Gallery, Osaka; Mihazaki Prefectual Museum, Mihazaki; Fukushima Prefectural Museum, Fukushima; Yamanashi Prefectural Museum, Kofu., 1985.

1988: Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection. Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 1988-1990.

Bibliography

1875: Barye, Antoine-Louis, and A. Genevay. Catalogue des œuvres de Antoine-Louis Barye: exposées a l'École des beaux-arts. Paris, 1875, 108.

1889: Barye Monument Association of New York. Catalogue of the works of Antoine-Louis Barye exhibited at the American Art Galleries, 6 East 23 Street, New York, under the auspices of the Barye Monument Association; also of paintings by J.F. Millet, Th. Rousseau ... [et al.] ... his contemporaries and friends for the benefit of the Barye Monument Fund. New York, 1889, 59.

1954: Zieseniss, Charles-Otto. Les aquarelles de Barye; étude critique et catalogue raisonné. Paris, 1955, 61.

1962: Gus Fisher Gallery. French master drawings, Antoine Louis Barye: and Major Landscapists of the Barbizon school. Los Angeles, Calif, 1962, no. 6.

1985: Millet, Jean François, and Gabriel P. Weisberg. Millet and his Barbizon contemporaries: Exhibition.Tokyo, 1985, 129.

1988: Robinson, Lilien F., and Edward J. Nygren, Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection. Washington, 1988: 61-62, fig. 72 (chapter on Barye's watercolors by Martina Roudabush Norelli).