LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER ANTOINE LOUIS BARYE (1795-1875)

The model is attributed to Antoine Louis Barye by three authors. See Christopher Payne, Animals in Bronze, 1986, p.227; Stuart Pivar, The Barye Bronzes, a catalogue raisonné, A30, p.132, and Glenn Benge, Antoine Louis Barye, 1984, fig.5 in which he illustrates a signed example in Walters Art gallery, Baltimore.