About this artwork
In contrast to the many resting tigers depicted by Delacroix in paintings, lithographs, and etchings, this one stands upright on its feet, tense and snarling at a challenger to the left. This is a rare instance of the artist’s use of the cliché verre technique, in which lines were etched or drawn on a glass plate to make a photographically produced image. Here the sparely delineated strokes imbue the wiry cat with an almost electric sense of anticipation and compact power.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
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Title
- Tiger Ready to Spring
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Artist's working dates 1818–1863
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Medium
- Cliché verre on cream wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 15.8 × 19.1 cm (6 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.); Plate: 16.7 × 20.1 cm (6 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17 × 20.5 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
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Reference Number
- 1926.2233
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/92343/manifest.json
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