A boldly painted orange tiger lies on brown, rocky ground, his body nearly filling the canvas, blue water and gray sky in the background.
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Tiger Resting

Pierre Andrieu (French, 1821-1892)

c. 1845

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
20.3 × 38.1 cm (8 × 15 in.); Framed: 45.1 × 62.9 × 8.3 cm (17 3/4 × 24 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
France
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line
Henry Field Memorial Collection
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

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