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Tiger Attacking a Peacock
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Antoine Louis Barye sold [through his sale Hôtel Drouot Paris February 7 1876 no. 548]; to Ferdinand Barbedienne [through Henri Alfred Jacquemart Pairs]. Jacques Zoubaloff Paris by 1925 sold [through his sale Galerie Georges Petit Paris June 16-17 1927 no. 211 (bought in)]. Jerome Sonborough sold [through his sale Parke-Bernet New York October 18 1940 no. 58; to Grenville L. Winthrop [through Martin Birnbaum] New York NY bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1943.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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