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Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion

Eugène Delacroix

Painted
1849–50
Collection
Art Institute of Chicago
Medium
Oil on paperboard

A small painting from around 1849: on a rocky hillside a lion leaps onto a horse and its rider. Delacroix studied the movement of lions' muscles by sketching them at the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The red robe and tawny lion break through the grey of the rocks.

Object record (Art Institute of Chicago) · CC0

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