Python and a Gnu

1. George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago, by 1939; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Charles DeKay, Life and Works of Barye the Sculptor (New York: Barye Monument Association, 1889), pp. 54, 111.
• Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes: A Catalogue Raisonne (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1974), pp. 14-15, 238, cat. A199.
• Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. 83-85.
• Peter Fusco and H. W. Janson, eds., The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980), pp. 131-32.
• Glenn F. Benge, Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), fig. 96.
• Edward J. Nygren, “Barye’s Dramas of Animal Passions,” Antoine-Louis Barye: The Corcoran Collection, edited by Lilien F. Robinson and Edward J. Nygren (Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988), pp. 34-35.
• Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, La griffe et la dent, Antoine Louise Barye (1795–1875) sculpteur animalier (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996), pp. 53-57.
• Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 355, cat. A16.

Lion Fighting a Serpent

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Roger and Angelica Mounted on the Hippogriff

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Jaguar Standing

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Cheval Turk

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Panther Seizing a Stag

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Lioness and Cubs

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Equestrienne in Renaissance Dress

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Relief of a Walking Lion

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