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About the Artwork
Panthers were among the first wild animals depicted by Rembrandt Bugatti after his encounter with them in the French national zoo, at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Inscriptions
signed: R. Bugatti, stamped A. A. Hebrard
Provenance
?–1977: Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918–1980] and Mrs. Muriel Spiro Butkin [1915–2008], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1977–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978). Bugatti. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-September 19, 1999).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Rembrandt Bugatti (Italian, 1884–1916)
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17.8 x 42 x 15.1 cm (7 x 16 9/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
- Accession no.
- 1977.132
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010775
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