Fighting Lions 1870–71; cast possibly 1906, definitely by late January 1907 William Rimmer American, born England Rimmer was always fascinated by lions; he drew, painted, and sculpted them. While Rimmer may have known the lions depicted in paintings by Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix, he was almost surely influenced by the work of Antoine-Louis Barye. Rimmer’s colleague William Morris Hunt had introduced the sculpture of Barye to Boston collectors in the 1860s, so Rimmer likely knew the French animal sculptor’s realistic statuettes of battling beasts, at the very least through engravin

Fighting Lions 1870–71; cast possibly 1906, definitely by late January 1907 William Rimmer American, born England Rimmer was always fascinated by lions; he drew, painted, and sculpted them. While Rimmer may have known the lions depicted in paintings by Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix, he was almost surely influenced by the work of Antoine-Louis Barye. Rimmer’s colleague William Morris Hunt had introduced the sculpture of Barye to Boston collectors in the 1860s, so Rimmer likely knew the French animal sculptor’s realistic statuettes of battling beasts, at the very least through engravings. "Fighting Lions" portrays a male and female lion locked in combat, an angry, turbulent mass of interlocked forms. Rimmer’s intimate knowledge of animal anatomy is evident, especially in his rendering of the straining muscles beneath the rippling, activated Fighting Lions 11917

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