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| Keywords: Antoine-Louis Barye - Elephant Asleep - Walters 37812.jpg An Asian elephant perhaps the one that arrived at the Jardin des Plantes in 1843 lies asleep in a small clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau Hints of red and yellow in the right background suggest that it is evening circa 1850 s-1860s watercolor with gum heightening on rough thick cream wove paper cm 27 3 38 4 accession number 37 812 20466 Émile Gavet Paris Antoine-François Marmontel Vente Marmontel Hôtel Drouot Paris January 25-26 1883 lot 12 William T Walters city Baltimore Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1883 Signature At bottom right in black watercolor BARYE; Number In graphite in lower left corner on verso 3; Number Scribbled over in graphite below 3 6; Label On back of mounting board Emile Gavet 27 Quai Saint-Michel and Collection de M Marmontel The Essence of Line The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye American Art Gallery New York New York 1889-1890 Barye Sculpture and Drawings American Federation of Arts New York 1959-1960 French Master Drawings of the Mid Nineteenth Century Fisher Gallery University of Southern California Los Angeles 1962 Untamed The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum Palm Beach 2007-2008 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license 2D The Essence of Line Drawings and paintings by Antoine-Louis Barye Engravings of elephants French paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
