Английская Википедия:A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother
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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.[1] 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.[2] It belonged to M. Maurice Cottier and now is on display at Room 77 of the Louvre in Paris.
Influence and analysis
Sweetly, the young background tiger slopes in his mother in the foreground, both running into rocks and under a cloudy sky. Some authors have written that Delacroix's animal paintings were made using his pet cat as a model.[3] And although it seems that the painting inspiration is due to one of his visits to the Jardin des Plantes zoo to see the tigers play with his friend Antoine-Louis Barye (an animal sculptor), Delacroix was always more content to observe his own cat.[4]
The piece was in some way influenced by Rubens and starkly contrasts with Delacroix's violent Tiger Hunt, though both (and other Delacroix paintings in this subject) capture the ferocity and tenderness that these animals are capable of:[4] two different works showing a duality of behavior. Tigers and great cats are frequent motifs in Eugène's works (see the following section).
These paintings, along with A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother, can be interpreted as a form of the artist displaying human emotions and passions personified as tame and fierce animals. For example, Delacroix wrote in his Journal of the time: "Men are tigers and wolves driven to destroy one another".[5] His friend Théophile Gautier saw a resemblance between his manner and those of these great cats that he painted, writing: "His tawny eyes, with their feline expression, his slender lips stretched tight over magnificent teeth, his firm jaw line emphasised by strong cheekbones... gave his features an untamed, a strange, exotic, almost alarming beauty."[4]
In French, the picture is called Jeune tigre jouant avec sa mère. Its fierce but also divinely serene animals represent the "delight in wildness" with which Romantic artists like Delacroix were fascinated.[6] Delacroix's interest in wildlife reached its peak with Ovid among the Scythians (1859), which depicts a scene of human barbarians and their animals. His painting of the mother and son tigers is a significant piece in his catalogue and for the time, as Lee Johnson explained:
Other paintings with similar themes
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Tiger, 36 × 53 cm
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Tiger and Snake. Oil on canvas, 13 × 16Шаблон:Fraction in, 1862
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Sketch for a lion hunt, 1854
References
External links
- A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother – Olga's Gallery
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- ↑ Rhoda Eitel (Pierpont Morgan Library), From Leonardo to Pollock: master drawings from the Morgan Library, Pierpont Morgan Library, 2006.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Mike Venezia, Getting to know the world's greatest artists – Eugène Delacroix, Children's Press, 2003, p. 27. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 Gilles Néret, Eugène Delacroix, 1798–1863: the prince of romanticism, Taschen, 2000, p. 64. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ Néret, 2000, p.64. Les hommes sont des tigres et des loups animés les uns contre les autres pour s'entre-détruire.
- ↑ Matt Cartmill, A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History, Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 118–119. Шаблон:ISBN
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