Lion About to Strike a Serpent (Lion la patte levée sur un serpent) or (Esquisse du lion des Tuileries)

Antoine-Louis Barye

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Originally modeled in 1832; this is the third casting. For another example of this subject in the Museum's collection, see 39.65.57. This piece is a small variant of Barye's Lion Crushing a Serpent which was bought by the French government and placed in the Tuileries Gardens in 1835. The Metropolitan Museum has a small model of this piece (see 10.108.3), as well as a plaster cast of the Tuileries bronze (89.9).

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

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