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Antoine-Louis Barye French
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Title: Lion About to Strike a Serpent (Lion la patte levée sur un serpent or Esquisse du lion des Tuileries)
Artist:
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, Paris 1795–1875 Paris)
Date: modeled 1832, executed after 1848
Culture: French
Medium: Bronze, brown patina; marble
Dimensions: Height (without base): 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
Credit Line: Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939
Object Number: 39.65.57a, b
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