Smithsonian American Art Museum
Two Bears Wrestling
Antoine-Louis Barye, French, born Paris, France 1796-died Paris, France 1875 · by 1833
Antoine-Louis Barye entered this sculpture in the 1833 Paris Salon, describing it as “Two bears wrestling, one North American, the other from the Indies.” He modeled many sculptures of bears in the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes, and often named them according to the cage labels, which identified their country of origin.
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