Lion Devouring a Rabbit
Eugène Delacroix
1818–1863
- Medium
- Pen and brown iron gall ink, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 26 × 32 cm (10 1/4 × 12 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)graphitepen and ink drawingsprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Delacroix or a close copyist looked to the artist’s masterful Lion of the Atlas Mountains (1927.1646) when producing this faithful sheet, including background details of the cave. Like the paintings copied after Delacroix that have only been recently reattributed to Andrieu, drawings that appear to be by Delacroix remain in high demand.
