Lion with a Snake (French: Lion au serpent) is an 1832 sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye.
It measures .
The original plaster was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1833 and is in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.
It was cast in bronze using the lost-wax process in 1835 by .
The original cast was acquired by Louis Philippe I and - after being exhibited in the Tuileries Gardens from 1836 to 1911 - is now in the Louvre.
A stone version is sited in the Tuileries.
Another bronze cast was made in 1891 by and was the first bronze installed in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia the following year, where it is known as Lion Crushing a Serpent.
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Sculptures of lions
Sculptures of snakes
19th-century sculptures
Plaster sculptures
Bronze sculptures
Sculptures in the Louvre by French artists
Sculptures in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
