JAGUAR MARCHANT
Oil on canvas
H : 37,5 cm, L : 46 cm
Signed in red « Barye » on the rocks.
Provenance:
Artist studio.
After death Barye sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 7-12, 1876, n°64, “Jaguar marchant”, Hector Brame Collection (from the above sale 3 000 Frs).
F. Barbedienne Collection (n°751, Catalogue Fine Arts School Barye Exhibition, 1889)
F. Barbedienne after death sale, Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, June 2-3, 1892, no. 3
Durand Ruel Collection (from the above sale: 9000 Frs hammer price)
Mr and Mrs Potter Palmer Collection (from the above on June 17, 1892, at the Durand-Ruel Gallery.Sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 12, 1978, n°186.
Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin collection.
(Thanks to Mme B. Tupinier-Barrillon and P-L and F. Durand Ruel for these details)

Exhibitions : 
Barye Retrospective, Paris Fine Arts School, 1875, n°351.
Fine Arts School Barye Exhibition, 1889, n°751, F. Barbedienne collection
“Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting at the Saginaw Museum”, Saginaw Museum, 1949, n° 2. Loan from the Butkin Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art
Art Institute of Chicago.