# Tiger Resting in the Desert

- By: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863)
- Date: 1846
- Medium: Etching on off-white China paper, laid down on white wove paper
- Classification: Print
- 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
- Credit line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11999)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/5a7c32d5-9c53-20c6-cc47-3de5db56fc6d/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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