Cleveland Museum of Art

Tiger in the Jungle

Paul Elie Ranson

Date

1893

Medium

color lithograph

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Paul Ranson used curving, wavelike forms to depict a stylized tiger in this lithograph. The artist was influenced by the calligraphic forms and heavy outlines that characterized Japanese prints, adopting these qualities in his own work. The print was created for L'Estampe Originale , a publication issued during the 1890s that presented a curated selection of original prints by contemporary artists to collectors. Although it may look like the artist used colored paper, the bold yellow in this work is actually printed.

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