Lion dévorant un sanglier (Lion devouring a boar)

Although relating in subject-matter to Lion qui vient de s'élancer sur un sanglier (see Poletti & Richarme, 2000, no. CS95, p. 437), one of the four combat groups from the celebrated duc d'Orléans surtout de table, Lion dévorant un sanglier is a much later work, not offered until Barye's final catalogue of 1874-5. Poletti and Richarme estimate lifetime casts of the model to number less than twenty, a far larger posthumous edition being offered by Brame.

Another cast of this model, formerly in the collection of Eduardo Guinle (d. 1941), was sold in these rooms, 25 April 2003, lot 24 ($6,572).