About the Artwork
Tiger Devouring an Antelope
ca. 1834
Antoine Louis Barye
1796-1875
French
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 9 1/4 × 11 1/2 × 9 inches (23.5 × 29.2 × 22.9 cm) Overall (base): 6 3/4 × 12 × 13 1/2 inches (17.1 × 30.5 × 34.3 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
76.92
Public Domain
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Provenance
1834, part of the surtout de table ordered by the duc d'Orleans
1853, Duchesse d'Orleans collection sale (Paris, France)
1853, purchased by Bejot [for 900FF]
until 1976, private collection (Paris, France)
1976, (Galerie de Bayser, Paris, France)
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Benge, Glenn F. "A Barye Bronze and Three Related Terra Cottas." Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 4 (1978): pp. 231-242 (figs. 1, 2) (ills.).
The Romantics to Rodin. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, et al. Los Angeles, 1980, pp. 129-131, no. 18.
Leroy, I. and J. Lemaistre. "Les recentes acquistions des Musées Nationaux." Revue du Louvre, no. 5 (1990): p. 405.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Antoine Louis Barye, Tiger Devouring an Antelope, ca. 1834, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 76.92.
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