Lion and Snake

1846

59 cm 38.7 cm

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Delacroix's "Lion and Snake" is one of an important series of feline images that the artist created around mid-century and imparts an anthropomorphic view of the animal world based on contemporary science. The reclining lion traps a snake deftly against the ground with his two...

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Mahler Collection (?); J. Montaignac; purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, March 22, 1888 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 664.
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