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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.
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