Lion with a Snake

Lion with a Snake (French: Lion au serpent) is an 1832 sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye.[1] It measures 1.35 by 1.78 by 0.96 metres (4 ft 5 in × 5 ft 10 in × 3 ft 2 in).

The original plaster was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1833 and is in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It was cast in bronze using the lost-wax process in 1835 by Honoré Gonon. The original cast was acquired by Louis Philippe I and - after being exhibited in the Tuileries Gardens from 1836 to 1911 - is now in the Louvre. A stone version is sited in the Tuileries. Another bronze cast was made in 1891 by Barbedienne and was the first bronze installed in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia the following year, where it is known as Lion Crushing a Serpent.[2]

  • Baltimore, terracotta sketch
  • Lyon, plaster
  • Louvre, bronze
  • Tuileries, stone
  • Philadelphia, bronze
  • Prague, Sternberg Palace, bronze

References
  1. "Site officiel du musée du Louvre". cartelfr.louvre.fr. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  2. "Lion Crushing a Serpent - Association for Public Art". Retrieved 21 July 2018.
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