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Antoine-Louis Barye: Elephant Asleep   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Antoine-Louis Barye  (1795–1875)  wikidata:Q451489
 
Antoine-Louis Barye
Description French painter, sculptor and founder
Date of birth/death 24 September 1795 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1875 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris 4th arrondissement of Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q451489
Title
Elephant Asleep
Description
English: An Asian elephant, perhaps the one that arrived at the Jardin des Plantes in 1843, lies asleep in a small clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Hints of red and yellow in the right background suggest that it is evening.
Date circa 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
s-1860s
Medium watercolor with gum heightening on rough, thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions height: 27.3 cm (10.7 in); width: 38.4 cm (15.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,27.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,38.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.812
Place of creation Paris, France
Object history
Exhibition history
  • The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York. 1889-1890. Barye Sculpture and Drawings. American Federation of Arts, New York. 1959-1960.
  • French Master Drawings of the Mid Nineteenth Century. Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 1962.
  • Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach. 2007-2008.
Credit line Acquired by William T. Walters, 1883
Inscriptions [Signature] At bottom right in black watercolor: BARYE; [Number] In graphite in lower left corner, on verso: 3; [Number] Scribbled over in graphite below "3": 6; [Label] On back of mounting board: Emile Gavet, 27 Quai Saint-Michel (and) Collection de M. Marmontel.
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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