Jaguar Standing
Antoine Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875)
1830/50
- Medium
- Watercolor, with black crayon, touches of gouache, and wiping, on cream laid paper, laid down on Japanese paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 25 × 33.5 cm (9 7/8 × 13 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Potter Palmer II
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
A Romantic artist working in Paris, Barye was the foremost master of bronze animal sculpture and the initiator of a school called the "Animaliers." A tireless observer of animal form and habits, Barye often sketched at the Paris zoo. Back in his studio, the artist used his imagination to transform his quick studies of caged animals into highly finished drawings that situate the animals in a more exotic natural environment.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
