Lion Crushing a Serpent

Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875

Antoine-Louis Barye created a life-size plaster cast of Lion écrasant un Serpent for the 1833 Paris Salon. The government commissioned a replica to place in the garden of the Tuileries, which caused a member of the Academy to comment: “Are the Gardens . . . to become a Menagerie?” This piece was one of Barye’s most popular animal sculptures, and he offered reproductions in two different sizes <b>[see 1983.90.202]</b>.

Date: ca. 1830s
Type: Sculpture
Medium: cast bronze
Department: SAAM
Institution: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object number: saam_1983.90.202
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Olin Dows

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Lion Crushing a Serpent

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