Study of a Tiger
Medium
Lithograph; third state of three
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 15 3/4 in. (27.6 × 40 cm) Image: 4 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (11.5 × 19 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.636
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Antoine-Louis Barye · 1795–1875
Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875) was born in Paris on September 24, the son of goldsmith Pierre Barye and Marguerite Barye. Following family tradition, he apprenticed as a goldsmith under his father and, around 1810, with Martin-Guillaume Biennais, goldsmith to Napoleon. After brief military service, Barye pursued sculpture, studying under François-Joseph Bosio in 1816 and painter Baron Antoine-Jea...