Art Institute of Chicago

Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)

Date

1831

Medium

Lithograph in black on buff wove paper

Culture

France

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

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.

The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.