Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother
Eugène Delacroix
1831
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on buff wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 11.2 × 18.7 cm (4 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 22.5 × 31 cm (8 7/8 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
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 supportive director, Achille Ricourt.
