Cézanne's position is so close to the subject of this drawing, and his reduction of its forms to a pattern of curving lines and patches of shading so extreme, that it is not at first recognizable, and has not in fact been identified previously. As [a] photograph of the work itself and his own more easily recognizable copy in Sketchbook II (see Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987-53-69b), show, this drawing reproduces the lion's face and right paw of Antoine-Louise Barye's sculptural group Lion and Serpent. Now in the Louvre, it was before 1911 in the Tuileries Gardens; after 1886 a plaster cast was also on view in the Musée de Sculpture Comparée. Theodore Reff, from Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks (1989), p. 91.