Lion and Boar

Antoine Louis Barye (French, 1795–1875)

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions18.7 x 24.5 cm (7 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession number26.774

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InscriptionsStamped, lower right: BARYE; Seal on reverse: VENTE BARYEProvenanceFebruary 7-12, 1876, Barye estate sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 2. 1889, James F. Sutton (b. 1843 - d. 1915), New York [see note 1]; probably passed directly from Sutton to Richard Austin Robertson (b. 1829 - d. 1891), New York [see note 2]; April 7, 1892, posthumous Robertson sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 54, to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1926, bequest of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 20, 1926)

NOTES:
[1] Lent to the exhibition of Works of Antoine-Louis Barye (American Art Asssociation, New York, November 1889), cat. no. 512. [2] Sutton and Robertson were founding members of the American Art Association.