# Baby Robin

- By: Paul Wayland Bartlett (born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925)
- Date: modeled ca. 1890-1895
- Medium: bronze
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 3 7/8 x 2 5/8 x 3 3/4 in. (9.8 x 6.7 x 9.6 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=1431)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c8ed7e4a6cdfafb119c4bcc2d898bfb0.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Paul Wayland Bartlett developed his abilities as an animalier while working under the French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet. They sketched and modeled animals at the Jardin des Plantes, a famous botanical garden in Paris. Frémiet usually depicted the peaceable side of animal life in his sculptures and often modeled his creatures in family groups. Bartlett followed this example in Baby Robin, in which the young bird is expressive without being depicted sentimentally. The inquisitive eyes and alert pose create an endearing image of a fragile creature.