
Artwork
Tiger Sleeping in the Desert (Tigre couché dans le désert)
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Date
- 1846, printed c. 1870
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
Leader of French Romanticism whose vibrant colour, dynamic movement, and exotic subjects broke decisively with Neoclassical restraint and inspired the Impressionists.
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