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Tiger Attacking an Antelope
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795–1875)
Title
Tiger Attacking an Antelope
Artist
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795–1875)
Date
modeled c.1836
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
13 × 21 3/4 × 11 in. (33 × 55.2 × 27.9 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur O'Brien
Object Number
1947.155
On View
On view
Provenance
His sale to Arthur O’Brien (1884–1942), Washington D.C., by 1942;
Inherited by his wife Blanche Estabrook O’Brien (1881–1957), Seattle, 1942–47;
Her gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1947.
Exhibition History
Published References
Philip Gurney, “Barye Restored Subtlety, Life to Sculpture,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, December 8, 1960, 60, (repro.).
Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonné (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collector’s Club, 1974), 32.
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 75–76, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 138–39, (repro.).
