A Lioness Mauling the Chest of an Arab

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Lioness Mauling the Chest of an Arab

Eugène Delacroix

Date
1849
Medium
Soft-ground etching and roulette on chine collé; first state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 8 1/4 x 11 in. (21 x 27.9 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (31.4 x 24.1 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
22.63.18
Credit line
Rogers Fund, 1922

Artist information

French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris

Subjects and terms

  • Animals
  • Men

The Met object ID 337092. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.