Antoine-Louis Barye entered this sculpture in the 1833 Paris Salon, describing it as “Two bears wrestling, one North American, the other from the Indies.” He modeled many sculptures of bears in the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes, and often named them according to the cage labels, which identified their country of origin.
- Title
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Two Bears Wrestling
- Artist
- Date
- by 1833
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 8 5⁄8 x 6 3⁄4 x 5 1⁄2 in. (21.9 x 17.2 x 14.0 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 – bear
- Object Number
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1983.90.205
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
