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Recumbent Lion (facing left)
Paul Wayland Bartlett (born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925)
ca. 1895
- Medium
- bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 5 1/2 x 11 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. (13.9 x 28.3 x 11.4 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Recumbent Lion is a partial sketch model of Paul Wayland Bartlett’s design for the Sherman Monument competition. In 1892 the federal government organized a competition to design a statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union general famed for his March to the Sea. Bartlett was chosen as a finalist but did not win the commission. Recumbent Lion would have been one of four, flanking the two entrances to the monument.
