Bordeaux, Gironde 1827 - Paris 1901
Lion attaquant un gavial
Lion attacking a gavial crocodile
1860
terracotta
group
Dimensions (HxWxD): 14 5⁄8 x 13 5⁄8 x 12 1⁄2; on base, H. 3 5⁄8; weight: 40.5 lb
Acc. No.: 79.238
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 1979
Photo credit: 2012 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
© Artist : public domain
© Artist : public domain
Provenance
- Paris Art Market
- To July 1979, Bruton, Somerset, England, Bruton Gallery
- 1979, Museum Purchase
Bibliography
- Museum's website
- 1981 Ashton and Brown
Dore Ashton and Denise Hare Brown, Rosa Bonheur: A Life and A Legend, New York, Viking Press, 1981, p. 100, ill.
Exhibitions
- Museum's website, 2010
1979 Bruton
French Sculpture: An Anthology of French Sculpture with Drawings and Related Material, 1775-1945, Bruton, Somerset, Bruton Gallery, 7 April-26 May 1979, ill. p. 38
1983 Washington
Purchases by the Hirshhorn Museum, 1974-1983, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 15 September-14 November 1983