Art Institute of Chicago

Tiger Ready to Spring

Eugène Delacroix

Date

n.d.

Medium

Cliché verre on cream wove paper

Culture

France

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

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.

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