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Antoine-Louis Barye

Tiger Devouring a Gavial of the Ganges, model 1831

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Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 18.3 × 49.6 × 15.8 cm, 16 lb. (7 3/16 × 19 1/2 × 6 1/4 in., 7.258 kg)

Credit Line

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

Accession Number

2004.166.2

Artists / Makers

Antoine-Louis Barye (artist) French, 1795 - 1875

Image Use

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Inscription

on a leaf to the proper left of the tiger at center of base: BARYE

Provenance

(Shepherd Gallery, New York); purchased 1978 by Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Amherst and Pittsburgh; gift 2004 to NGA.

Associated Names

Shepherd Gallery Associates, Inc.
Trapp, Frank Anderson

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