"A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother"

Eugène Delacroix - Oil
A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother is a 1830 painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix depicting two enormous tigers "playing" with each other. Painted early in his career, it shows how the artist was attracted to animal subjects in this period. The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1831. Now it is on display at Room 77 of Louvre in Paris.