Provenance

Mary J. Morgan

Morgan, Mary J. Mrs.

American, died 1885

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Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ before Pilate: Large Plate, 1636, etching, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7175

Christ before Pilate: Large Plate

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1636 · etching ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7175

Martin Schongauer, Elephant, c. 1480/1490, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.9098

Elephant

Martin Schongauer · c. 1480/1490 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1943.3.9098

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Hexagonal Lantern, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.587

Hexagonal Lantern

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.587

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Hexagonal Lantern, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.586

Hexagonal Lantern

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.586

A crouching tiger to our left bares its fangs at a hissing snake wound around a tree to our right in this nearly square painting. Yellow eyes gleaming, the tiger stretches its front paws forward with ears pinned back, teeth bared, rump in the air, and its tail curling down near its back legs. The white fur of the tiger’s underbelly near the front legs glows in the sunlight. Light glints off the skin of the snake, which coils around the tree twice and flicks its forked tongue between gaping jaws. The grassy area around the tiger is painted in shades of gold, green, and mustard yellow. Behind the tiger, a sage-green plain stretches back on our left to rocky hills in the distance, with hints of blue sky and clouds beyond. The tree frames the scene on our right, its gnarled, split trunk extending off the top edge of the canvas and its roots reaching beyond the bottom edge, where the artist signed and dated the work: “Eug. Delacroix 1862.”
Eugène Delacroix, Tiger and Snake, 1862, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.30

Tiger and Snake

Eugène Delacroix · 1862 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.30