Tiger Ready to Spring

Museum record 92343: Tiger Ready to Spring by Eugène Delacroix. A verified entry point for discovery.

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In contrast to the many resting tigers depicted by Delacroix in paintings, lithographs, and etchings, this one stands upright on its feet, tense and snarling at a challenger to the left. This is a rare instance of the artist’s use of the cliché verre technique, in which lines were etched or drawn on a glass plate to make a photographically produced image. Here the sparely delineated strokes imbue the wiry cat with an almost electric sense of anticipation and compact power. MyArtTaste includes museum reco…