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| Paintings Stubbs George 1724 - 1806 Painter, Printmaker, Draftsman, England, Romanticism |
| Lion Devouring a Horse, 1763 |
| Oil on canvas, 69 x 104 cm |
| Tate Gallery, London |
| Animals & Hunting Scenes |
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STG016 |
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15x24 inches |
| price: |
260 USD |
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STG016B |
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20x32 inches |
| price: |
320 USD |
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OIL PAINTING : Lion Devouring a Horse, 1763 |
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The young George Stubbs made a journey to Rome in 1754. He was already known as a painter of animals, and his earliest biographer recorded his failure to make the usual studies of classical monuments. But the suggestive power of one antiquity in particular, a pre-Hellenistic sculpture of a horse attacked by a lion in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, moved him to his own depiction of fear in " Lion Devouring a Horse ". For thirty years Stubbs meditated on this theme of conflict, producing at least seventeen works in oil or enamel, clay or mixed-method engraving, adopting an episodic, four-part sequence beginning with the horse's first terrified sight of the lion emerging from its cave and ending - closest to the Antique source - with its exhausted collapse beneath its attacker. The painting shows this last episode.
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