Seated Lion is a sketch model of a statue for the Tuileries gardens in Paris. Antoine-Louis Barye had extremely high standards and usually cast, chiseled, and patinated all of his own pieces. The government decided to sand-cast the full-size Lion assis, however, because this was a cheaper method. The sculpture was later moved to the Louvre, and a mechanically reversed reproduction was made so that the two lions could flank the museum’s entrance.
“This larval lion, a living spectre, had something fantastic and powerfully imposing about it.” Emmanuel Frémiet, 1846, quoted in Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, 1974
- Title
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Seated Lion
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1830s
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 7 x 3 x 6 1⁄4 in. (17.8 x 7.6 x 15.9 cm.)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Bequest of Olin Dows
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- cast bronze
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Animal – lion
- Object Number
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1983.90.204
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- Linked Open Data
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