Walking Tiger (Un tigre qui marche), modeled 1836, executed after 1848, French, Bronze, wood base, Overall: 8 1/4 × 16 1/2 in. (21 × 41.9 cm), Sculpture-Bronze, Antoine-Louis Barye (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris), While the primal energy of the animal world was one of the favorite subjects of French artists of the Romantic period, the meticulous observation of nature evident in Barye’s animal sculpture owed much to advances in the study of the natural sciences made during the eighteenth century
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Walking Tiger, Un tigre qui marche, modeled 1836, executed, 1848, French, Bronze, wood base, Overall, 8 1/4, 16 1/2, 21, 41.9 cm, Sculpture-Bronze, Antoine-Louis Barye, Paris, 1796–1875, primal energy, animal world, favorite subjects, French artists, Romantic period, meticulous observation, nature evident, Barye, sculpture, owed, advances, study, natural sciences, eighteenth century
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