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Tiger Attacking a Young Camel

Artist Christophe Fratin (French, 1801–1864)
Title Tiger Attacking a Young Camel (Tigre terrassant un jeune chameau)
Date 1834 (cast 1845)
Medium Bronze
Dimensions Overall: 7 9/16 x 9 x 15 15/16 in. (19.2 x 22.9 x 40.5 cm)
Credit Line Arthur R. Metz Collection; Gift of the Arthur R. Metz Foundation, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 94.75

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The expressionistic treatment of this sculpture’s surface emphasizes its violent subject, and recalls the vigorous brushwork seen in many French Romantic paintings. Christophe Fratin exhibited a plaster model of this dramatic sculpture at the Paris Salon of 1834, only later casting the work in bronze. This example is unfinished; the sprue bars that hold the individual bronze sections together were not removed.


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