Snarling Jaguar, between 1831 and 1832

  • Antoine Louis Barye, French, 1796-1875

Terracotta

  • Overall (object): 4 15/16 × 13 1/4 × 4 1/16 inches (12.5 × 33.7 × 10.3 cm) Overall: 5 5/8 × 15 × 5 1/2 inches (14.3 × 38.1 × 14 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

76.93

On View

  • Era of Revolution

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Marquis de Biron

Comte de Loriol

February 7-12, 1876, Barye Sale (Paris, France) #559. (Heim Gallery, London, England)

1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"Curatorial Reports." Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 1 (1977-1978): p. 26 (ill.). Benge, Glenn F. "A Barye Bronze and Three Related Terra Cottas." Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 4 (1978): pp. 231-242. "Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, April 26, 1981, p. 12 (ill.). "Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News, April 29, 1984, p. 23 (ill.). Darr, Alan Phipps. The Influence of Paris: European and American Sculpture 1830-1930. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1981, cat. no. 1, p. 6, (ill.).

Antoine Louis Barye, Snarling Jaguar, between 1831 and 1832, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 76.93.