Antoine-Louis Barye, Two Peruvian Jaguars, about 1833. Black chalk with white chalk highlights, brush with white and gray gouache, squared with graphite for transfer on two sheets of wove paper, joined together and mounted; 8⅞ × 13¾ in. (22.5 × 35.1 cm). Denver Art Museum: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, 2019.580

image height: 8 7/8 in, 22.5425 cm; image width: 13 13/16 in, 35.0838 cm; frame height: 20.25 in, 51.4350 cm; frame width: 24.25 in, 61.5950 cm; frame depth: 1.875 in, 4.7625 cm; height: 9.25 in, 23.4950 cm; width: 13.75 in, 34.9250 cm

Red stamp (?) reading "Barye." in lower right corner.

European and American Art Before 1900

European Painting and Sculpture before 1900

Atelier Barye sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 7–12, 1876 (stamped lower right with the red stamp of the Vente Barye, BARYE); presumably unsold and inherited by his daughter, Madame Léon Peronne-Barye, née Hélène-Antoinette-Adéläide Barye (1847–1925) f;rom whom acquired by Jacques Michel de Zoubaloff (1876–1941), Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 10–11, 1917, lot 110; Madame Francis Wiener de Croisset, née Marie-Thérèse de Chevigné (1880–1963), Villa Croisset, Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes); by descent to Philippe de Montebello, New York; from whom acquired through Wildenstein, New York, by Esmond Bradley Martin [1941–2018], 2008; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2019.

• "The Wild Kingdom of Antoine-Louis Barye, 1795-1875: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Wildlife Conservation Society"—Wildenstein, New York, 11/04-12/09/1994, no. 120
• "Passport to Paris"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013–02/09/2014