# Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother

- By: Eugène Delacroix (printed by Castille (French, 19th century))
- Date: 1831
- Medium: Lithograph in black on buff wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 11.2 × 18.7 cm (4 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 22.5 × 31 cm (8 7/8 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Albert Roullier Memorial Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/20174)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/8aa5b390-9fb0-6312-4cd2-4c34fbca7221/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Delacroix based this lithograph on a painting he exhibited at the 1831 Paris Salon to great acclaim, with one critic writing, “Never has this singular artist painted a man that resembles a man, the way his tiger resembles a tiger.” Like the nearby engraving after Rubens’s Lion Hunt (2010.48), this canvas became more widely known through the circulation of a printed reproduction. Delacroix produced this lithograph for the nascent arts and literature periodical L’Artiste, specifically in honor of its supportive director, Achille Ricourt.

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