Antoine-Louis BaryeFrench, 1796–1875Jaguar Devouring a Crocodile
Can I see it?
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Where is “Jaguar Devouring a Crocodile” now? Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Unknown.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
Antoine-Louis Barye created more than fifty sculptures of cats. He chiseled the surface and applied patinas to show the patterns and textures of each animal’s fur. His work captures the force and brutality of great wild cats attacking their prey, and one critic described it as a “fierce, gluttonous, voluptuous enjoyment of the feline beast in the taste of blood.”
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Details
- Accession number
- 1983.90.206
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
