Lion with Cubs
Johann Höchle
1831
Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
28.5 × 39.2 cm (11 1/4 × 15 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129456
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Other 19th-century European artists found wild animal imagery as irresistible as did Delacroix. While lacking the raw power of Delacroix’s velvety and incised lithographs, this image of a lioness and her cub must be indebted to his 1831 Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother (1922.4476). While Delacroix sought to find the human in feline physiognomy, Höchle’s slightly caricatured rendition succeeds, though losing something of the grandeur found in Delacroix’s work.