The Tiger Hunt

c. 1836

Antoine-Louis Barye

Associated Names
Antoine-Louis Barye

Artist, French, 1795 - 1875

This is a painting of an elephant being attacked by a tiger. The scene shows a tiger leaping towards the elephant, which is adorned with decorative tassels and a saddle on its back. The background features an earthy landscape with a sense of vastness. The painting captures tension and movement through the positioning of the animals, colors, and composition.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.69 × 67.63 cm (19 9/16 × 26 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.136.208

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

artist's estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February, 1876, no 162; (via George A. Lucas, Paris); purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1876; acquired 2014 by National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1875

  • Catalogue des Oeuvres de Antoine-Louis Barye. École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1875, no. 445.

1889

  • Catalogue of the Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. Armerican Art Galleries, New York, 1889, no. 506.

1959

  • French Master-Works. Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1959, no. 2.

1962

  • French Master Drawings: Antoine Louis Barye and Major Landscapists of the Barbizon School. Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1962, no. 7.

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, MA, 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, 107.

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, 78, no. E 9, pl. 29.

1962

  • Gus Fisher Gallery. French master drawings, Antoine Louis Barye: and major landscapists of the Barbizon school. Los Angeles, Calif, 1962, no. 7.

1988

  • Robinson, Lilien F., and Edward J. Nygren. _ Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection._ Washington, 1988: 61, 63, 64, fig. 74 (chapter on Barye's watercolors by Martina Roudabush Norelli).

2005

  • Fisher, Jay McKean, and David P. Becker. The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. Exh. cat., Baltimore, 2005, 98-99, under no. 4 (reproduced in reverse).

Inscriptions

lower left in red watercolor: BARYE; verso in graphite: (horizontal, vertical, and diagonal grid lines and preliminary sketches); verso center in graphite: no. 443 (with a horizontal line through '443') / 442 / 6o (upside down) / No 68 / 69 - 49 and other indistinguishable numbering; verso left edge ascending from the lower edge: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 12 13; verso right edge ascending from the lower edge: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13; verso lower edge: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

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