Tiger Resting in the Desert
Eugène Delacroix
1846
- Medium
- Etching on off-white China paper, laid down on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 7.5 × 12.4 cm (3 × 4 15/16 in.); Plate: 9.2 × 13.7 cm (3 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 13.9 × 18.1 cm (5 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Delacroix ably reenvisioned the powerful pose of his Bengal Tiger lithograph for this smaller-scale etching. The impression, on warm paper with plate tone, is particularly reminiscent of the desert setting.
