# Recumbent Lion (facing left)

- By: Paul Wayland Bartlett (born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925)
- Date: 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)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=1453)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/27eb38bb5afdc396c35021885e1a1c3d.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.