Lion About to Strike a Serpent (Lion la patte levée sur un serpent) or (Esquisse du lion des Tuileries) modeled 1832, executed before 1847 Antoine-Louis Barye French Originally modeled in 1832; this is the third casting. For another example of this subject in the Museum's collection, see 39.65.57. This piece is a small variant of Barye's Lion Crushing a Serpent which was bought by the French government and placed in the Tuileries Gardens in 1835. The Metropolitan Museum has a small model of this piece (see 10.108.3), as well as a plaster cast of the Tuileries bronze (89.9).. Lion About to Strike a Serpent (Lion la patte levée sur un serpent) or (Esquisse du lion des Tuileries). Antoine-Louis Barye (French, Paris 1795-1875 Paris). French. modeled 1832, executed before 1847. Bronze, brown patina. Sculpture-Bronze