Painting and Sculpture

A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother

A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother is an 1830–1831 painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix depicting two enormous tigers "playing" with each other. Painted early in his career, it shows how the artist was attracted to animal subjects in this period. The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1831, and archives of Delacroix's will executor, Achille Piron, revealed that the painter had paid 1,200 francs to insure it. It belonged to M. Maurice Cottier and now is on display at Room 77 of the Louvre in Paris.

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• ▸Jean Siméon Chardin
• ▸Benevento Cathedral
• ▸Diana and Her Companions

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