Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur, the late Cyrus JLawrence, Esq., New York . the main en-trance to the Louvre from the river. Artists gave this lion thenickname of The Philosopher, owing to its quiet, its broodinglook, it Sphinx-like expression. It made so good an impressionthat the government ordered another as a pendant for the otherside of the gate, but to the astonishment of the official refused. He said he would make another lion, but not aduplicate of **Le Philosophe. The end was that the govern-ment had a second lion of the s
Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur, the late Cyrus JLawrence, Esq., New York . the main en-trance to the Louvre from the river. Artists gave this lion thenickname of The Philosopher, owing to its quiet, its broodinglook, it Sphinx-like expression. It made so good an impressionthat the government ordered another as a pendant for the otherside of the gate, but to the astonishment of the official refused. He said he would make another lion, but not aduplicate of **Le Philosophe. The end was that the govern-ment had a second lion of the same size and attitude cast, butreversed, so that the tails come right and left as you stand be-fore the two otherwise identical statues. Barve protested, butit was of no avail: they stand there ; (1 on the end of base. Barye. Height. Uys inches: width. 12 inches. 345—(11) A Seated Liox (No. 2.) 1841. Brown patina. The same as the foregoing,namely a reduction of the colossal Philosophe, but in this casethe patina is brown instead of dark on the base. Babtb. Height. 141., inches: width, 12
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