Title: Lion About to Strike a Serpent (Lion la patte levée sur un serpent or Esquisse du lion des Tuileries)
Object type: Statuette
Date: modeled 1832, executed after 1848
Artist:  Antoine-Louis Barye 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1795–1875 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Bronze, brown patina; marble
Dimensions: Height (without base): 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
Credit line: Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Lions, term: Serpents