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The Lion Hunt
Delacroix often painted hunting scenes and animals fighting. This work is part of a lion hunt series he painted in the 1850s. The subject reflects a fascination for exoticism and the culture of the Muslim countries in North Africa. During a visit to Morocco in the 1830s, Delacroix had studied and made sketches of the landscape, horses and hunters on horseback – themes that were later used when he …
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Creation date
- 1855
- 1855
Provenance
- Donated 1970 by Grace and Philip Sandblom
Identifier
- NM 6350
- 23399
Extent
- Mått 57 x 74 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Year
- 1855
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:32.462Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:27:05.021Z