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Lion Crushing a Serpent
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About this work
Antoine-Louis Barye created a life-size plaster cast of Lion écrasant un Serpent for the 1833 Paris Salon. The government commissioned a replica to place in the garden of the Tuileries, which caused a member of the Academy to comment: “Are the Gardens . . . to become a Menagerie?” This piece was one of Barye’s most popular animal sculptures, and he offered reproductions in two different sizes <b>[see 1983.90.202]</b>.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineLion Crushing a Serpent. ca. 1830s. Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Olin Dows. CC0.
