The Hand of Antoine-Louis Barye. Leon Bonnat
George A. Lucas, William Walters' art agent in Paris, delivered a plaster cast of Antoine Louis Barye's hand to the artist and Barye collector Léon Bonnat in April 1897. The following November, Lucas urged Bonnat to paint the image of the cast onto this partially cleaned palette, which had once belonged to Barye.
Date 1897
oil on panel
35.56 × 27.31 × 1.59 cm (14 × 10.8 × 0.6 in)
Walters Art Museum Link back to Institution infobox template wikidata:Q210081
Accession number 37.595
Place of creation France
Object history
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, 1860-1909. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979. Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach. 2007-2008.
Credit line Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
Inscriptions "Ln Bonnat," signed lower left; "1897," dated lower right" Main et Palette de Barye," title upper left
