Horse Attacked by a Tiger, model 1837 or before, cast possibly after 1875

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 26.1 x 36.9 x 16.2 cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1980.44.4

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

incised into model on proper right side of self-base: BARYE

Provenance

(Bernard Black Gallery, New York); sold May 1966 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[1] gift 1980 to NGA.[2]

[1] According to donor records, in NGA curatorial files.

[2] There are two known casts of this sculpture, one in the NGA and the other in The Walter's Art Gallery, Baltimore. One cast was exhibited in New York in 1889 as no. 37, and was listed as belonging to R. Austin Robertson, ESQ. However, it is undetermined as to whether this is the copy belonging to the NGA or to the Walters.

Associated Names

Black Gallery, Bernard
Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1974: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March-May 1974, unnumbered checklist.

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June-September 1974, no. XIX, repro.

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 25, repro.

2000: Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 25-27, color repro.