Lion with Cubs

Prints and Drawings

1831

Johann Höchle
German, 1790-1835

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.

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Artist: Johann Höchle
Title: Lion with Cubs
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1831
Medium: Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 28.5 × 39.2 cm (11 1/4 × 15 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.711
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