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Leopard and Serpent

Antoine-Louis Barye · 1810–75

Antoine-Louis Barye: French, 1795 - 1875

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Leopard and Serpent

1810–75

Watercolor on laid paper · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Watercolor on laid paper
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Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (16.8 x 25.1cm)
Collection no.
29.100.579
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CC0 1.0License details

Antoine-Louis Barye. Leopard and Serpent. 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

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Leopard and Serpent — Antoine-Louis Barye. 1810–75.

Medium: Watercolor on laid paper. Dimensions: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (16.8 x 25.1cm).

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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Antoine-Louis Barye. Leopard and Serpent. 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.