Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur, the late Cyrus JLawrence, Esq., New York . e makes between the active and inactive paws ofthe tiger. Those clutching- the prey have the claws well out oftheir sheaths, hooked into the flesh of the gazelle. Those on thehind feet are retracted into the sheath. Markings indicated byparallel Bakye. Height, I., inches; length, \2., indie.*. 338—(16) A Lion Devouring a Hixd Green patina. Enjoymentof his meal shows itself in thetail of the lion, which keepstime to the ferocious emo-tions of the king
Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur, the late Cyrus JLawrence, Esq., New York . e makes between the active and inactive paws ofthe tiger. Those clutching- the prey have the claws well out oftheir sheaths, hooked into the flesh of the gazelle. Those on thehind feet are retracted into the sheath. Markings indicated byparallel Bakye. Height, I., inches; length, \2., indie.*. 338—(16) A Lion Devouring a Hixd Green patina. Enjoymentof his meal shows itself in thetail of the lion, which keepstime to the ferocious emo-tions of the king of modelling of tilemane. The peculiar sparequality of the leonine body iswell told. Barye won earlya very false position in the popular mind, as a person who lovedcruel sights, because he represented the carnivorous beasts at-tacking and feasting on their natural prey. He lived in an ao-ewhen England vied with France in sentimentality, and Baryeoften shocked the devotees of maudlin sentiment bv DresentineMich common tragedies of the , Babye, 1837. Height, 5ys inches: length, \2y\ 339—(15) Lion Striking at Serpent 1823-33. Mottled-green patina. Barye received the decorationof the Legion of Honor after the French government had ac-cepted the model of Lion Crushing a Serpent, the big bronzethat visitors of the gardens of the Tuileries in Paris will remem-ber near the terrace overlooking the Seine. When this big groupwas cast by the lost wax process and erected near the Tuil-eries, the unveiling was a famous event. This little bronze is nota reduction of the big one, but it is the same subject, somewhatdifferent in pose. The lion of monument is quieter, and his leftpaw is not raised to strike as lure. A lion has placed one of his
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