Tiger Attacking a Peacock
Artist
Antoine-Louis Barye
(French, 1795 - 1875)
Date19th century
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 × 17 3/4 inches (15.88 × 45.09 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Justin L. Mooney
Object number65-6/1
On View
On viewGallery Location
- L13
Collections
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Cast by Barbedienne Foundry, Paris, after 1876;
Mrs. David M. Lighton (née Gertrude Woolf, 1876–1961), Kansas City, MO, by 1961;
By descent to her daughter, Mrs. Justin L. Mooney (née Phoebe Lighton, 1907–1981), Kansas City, MO, by 1961–1965;
Given by Mrs. Justin L. Mooney to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1965.
Jeanne L. Wasserman, Sculpture by Antoine-Lois Barye in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1983), 78, as Tiger Attacking a Peacock.
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), 48-49, (repro.), as Tiger Attacking a Peacock.
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