Sujet

Elephant Asleep, c1850s-1860s. Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye.

Légende

Elephant Asleep, c1850s-1860s. An Asian elephant, perhaps the one that arrived at the Jardin des Plantes in 1843, lies asleep in a small clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Hints of red and yellow in the right background suggest that it is evening.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B17_045

Model release

NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

48,9Mo (2,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 29,2cm / 4960 x 3446 (300dpi)

Mots clés

forest portrait animal wildlife garden gardens arts country French France art sleep sleeping romantic museum lying color elephant location century asleep concept Fontainebleau Seine-et-Marne botanical garden wild animal behaviour lying down Asian elephant romanticism watercolour Botanical Gardens Colour 19th century Ile-de-France botanic garden Botanic Gardens nineteenth century 1850s TGN île-de-France Jardin des Plantes portrait animal behaviour Romantic Era Walters Art Museum Heritage Art Antoine-Louis Barye Barye Antoine-Louis 19th-century Antoine Louis Barye Forest of Fontainebleau watercolour with gum heightening on rough thick cream wove paper