Tiger Devouring a Gavial (First Reduction)

modeled ca. 1831; cast ca. 1845

51.3 cm 20 cm 18.4 cm

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When a plaster model for this sculpture appeared in the Paris Salon of 1831, critics were astonished by the choice of an animal theme over a more conventional human subject. One critic praised the manner in which Barye expressed both the suffering of the gavial (an Indian croc...

Sculpture

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William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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