Sleeping Elephant

1810–75

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 11 3/4 in. (24.9 x 29.9cm)
Collection no.: 29.100.582
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Antoine-Louis Barye. Sleeping Elephant. Antoine-Louis Barye; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Sleeping Elephant — Antoine-Louis Barye. 1810–75.

Medium: Watercolor on wove paper. Dimensions: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 11 3/4 in. (24.9 x 29.9cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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