Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010804Tiger Devouring a Gavial
About the Artwork
A large reptile of southern Asia, the gavial is related to and resembles a crocodile.
Inscriptions
Signed: "BARYE"
Provenance
Constance Mather Bishop.
Exhibition history
Rodin and His Contemporaries. Sunrise Art Museum, Charleston, WV (organizer) (January 10-March 8, 1998).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796–1875)
- Date
- 1831
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 20.4 x 20.4 cm (8 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of the family of Constance Mather Bishop
- Accession no.
- 1993.233
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