Tiger Devouring a Gavial (First Reduction)
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...
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Sculpture
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40322
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sculpture
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normalized
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provenance
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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CC0
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en
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2
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import
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.154_Prof_TR_T05II.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.154_Prof_TR_T05II.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.154 |
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Medium
sand cast bronze
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