01 Work, The Art of War, Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene (1798-1863) French Young Woman Taken Away By A Tiger Or Indian Bitten By A Tiger, with footnotes

Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene (1798-1863) / French

Young Woman Taken Away By A Tiger Or Indian Bitten By A Tiger, c. 1856

Oil on canvas

0.51 x 0.61m

Stuttgart. Staatsgalerie

Parallel to these complex compositions, where the hunters on horseback lead the choreography, Delacroix worked on many scenes with two figures, in which

a great cat is shown tearing its prey—human or animal—to pieces. Lion Devouring a Rabbit, Lion Devouring an Arab, and Young Woman Attacked by a Tiger (also known as Indian Woman Bitten by a Tiger) occupy cavernous landscapes filled

with disturbing clumps of spiny plants (agaves or bulrushes). The preliminary drawings for the tiger painting demonstrate the decisive role of the formal interplay of two tangled, undulating bodies, those of the feline and the young woman, perhaps inspired by the dryads (salabhanjika) of ancient Buddhist art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action.

However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible." More on Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix

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