# Tiger Devouring a Gavial Crocodile of the Ganges [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BARYE, Antoine-Louis]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Bronze, height 100 cm ## Commentary Barye was one of a new generation of French sculptors who from the 1820s were transforming a medium hitherto considered among the most perfectly classical of the arts, through revitalized techniques and a new focus on transient expression. His Tiger Devouring a Gavial Crocodile of the Ganges, a sensation in the Salon of 1831, is an extraordinarily vivid rendering of insensate ferocity. ## Related artworks - [A Small Deer]() - [Bull Attacked by a Bear]() - [Cheval Turk]() - [Elephant from Senegal]() - [Forest of Fontainebleau: "La Reine Blanche"]() - [Forest of Fontainebleau: The "Jean de Paris"]() - [Jaguar Devouring a Hare]() - [Lion and Serpent]() - [Lion Bitten by a Snake]() - [Lions near their Den]() - [Panther Seizing a Stag]() - [Roger and Angelica]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()