Description
A dark-striped tiger lies low across a wide etched landscape, its face directed toward the left. Eugène Delacroix gives the animal a resting presence whose length meets the openness of the surrounding desert. The image invites attention to creature and setting together, allowing a quiet bodily position to carry the encounter without the action of a hunt.
The print is tentatively dated to 1846 and combines etching, roulette, tone and drypoint. Its varied techniques bring several means of graphic description into the same image, giving the animal a lasting printed presence. The encounter’s interest lies in that focused regard, where a tiger at rest can carry the composition without a dramatic narrative and where the surface allows continued attention to its particular form.
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