A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother is an oil-on-canvas painting completed by the French Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix in 1830-1831, now in the Louvre in Paris. It depicts a young tiger and its mother at play together against a rocky landscape beneath a cloudy sky. Delacroix exhibited the work at the Paris Salon of 1831, at a point early in his career when he was strongly drawn to depicting exotic and powerful animals. The art historian Lee Johnson has described it as the largest animal painting Delacroix had made up to that time, and it reflects his recurring interest in using animal subjects to express raw emotion and physical power. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother is an oil-on-canvas painting completed by the French Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix in 1830-1831, now in the Louvre in Paris.
- infobox year field: 1830-1831
- infobox medium field: Oil on canvas
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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
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