Python Swallowing a Doe, model 1840, cast possibly 1876/1914

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 8.5 x 34.8 x 12.1 cm (3 3/8 x 13 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Lisa and Leonard Baskin

Accession Number

1995.75.5

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

incised, probably in foundry model, on plinth by front left hoof of doe: BARYE; incised, probably in foundry model, on edge of plinth: F.BARBEDIENNE.FONDEUR.; inset, on plinth by curve of python's tail, a gold foundry cachet: F.B.; incised on underside: 43; previous incision surmounted by stamped horizontal: 6

Provenance

Art market, New York, mid-1960s; (F. Gorevic & Son, Inc., New York); sold 1965/1970 to Lisa and Leonard Baskin, Leeds, Massachusetts;[1] gift 1995 to NGA.

[1] Letter of 22 June 1996 from Charles Gorevic to Anne Halpern (in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Art market, New York
Baskin, Lisa
Gorevic & Co.

Bibliography

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: 34-42, color repro.