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A crouching tiger to our left bares its fangs at a hissing snake wound around a tree to our right in this nearly square painting. Yellow eyes gleaming, the tiger stretches its front paws forward with ears pinned back, teeth bared, rump in the air, and its tail curling down near its back legs. The white fur of the tiger’s underbelly near the front legs glows in the sunlight. Light glints off the skin of the snake, which coils around the tree twice and flicks its forked tongue between gaping jaws. The grassy area around the tiger is painted in shades of gold, green, and mustard yellow. Behind…

Tiger and Snake

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798 - 1863)

1862 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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