Tiger Resting in the Desert
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
1846
- Medium
- Etching on off-white China paper, laid down on white wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 7.5 × 12.4 cm (3 × 4 15/16 in.); Plate: 9.2 × 13.7 cm (3 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 13.9 × 18.1 cm (5 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Delacroix ably reenvisioned the powerful pose of his Bengal Tiger lithograph for this smaller-scale etching. The impression, on warm paper with plate tone, is particularly reminiscent of the desert setting.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
