Art, literature & history
Tiger Resting in the Desert
1846
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching on off-white China paper, laid down on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 7.5 × 12.4 cm (3 × 4 15/16 in.); Plate: 9.2 × 13.7 cm (3 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 13.9 × 18.1 cm (5 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1960.302
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Eugène Delacroix. Tiger Resting in the Desert. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Tiger Resting in the Desert — Eugène Delacroix. 1846.
Medium: Etching on off-white China paper, laid down on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 7.5 × 12.4 cm (3 × 4 15/16 in.); Plate: 9.2 × 13.7 cm (3 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 13.9 × 18.1 cm (5 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Delacroix ably reenvisioned the powerful pose of his Bengal Tiger lithograph for this smaller-scale etching. The impression, on warm paper with plate tone, is particularly reminiscent of the desert setting.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.