Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Romantic Horse
Lion Devouring a Horse
Eugène Delacroix, 1844 · lithograph on wove paper
What it is
A lion crouches over the body of a fallen horse at the mouth of a cave, in Eugène Delacroix’s lithograph on wove paper of 1844, signed in the stone.
Why it matters
Delacroix took up the subject Stubbs had painted eighty years earlier and gave it the dark of the lithographic crayon.
What to notice
The horse’s hoof and leg lie across the lower edge of the sheet, and the lion looks straight out.
The lion’s side of the story.
Provenance
- Maker
- Eugène Delacroix, 1844
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- lithograph on wove paper
- Made
- 1844
- Source
- National Gallery of Art, Washington · via Wikimedia Commons · 2002.98.16
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Wikimedia Commons licence tag, read 2026-11-01: CC0. The maker died in 1863.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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