Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother

Museum record 20174: Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother by Eugène Delacroix. A verified entry point for discovery.

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Delacroix based this lithograph on a painting he exhibited at the 1831 Paris Salon to great acclaim, with one critic writing, “Never has this singular artist painted a man that resembles a man, the way his tiger resembles a tiger.” Like the nearby engraving after Rubens’s Lion Hunt (2010.48), this canvas became more widely known through the circulation of a printed reproduction. Delacroix produced this lithograph for the nascent arts and literature periodical L’Artiste , specifically in honor of its supp…