Tiger Devouring a Gavial of the Ganges

Provenance

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

Tiger Devouring a Gavial of the Ganges

Barye, Antoine-Louis

model 1831

Accession Number

2004.166.2

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)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp