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Nature & Animal Art!
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Spotted hyena, the night falling...
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A lion and a lioness basking in the sun, by Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842–1915) in Berlin: https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-paul-f...a-5675838/
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Black panther's head, watercolor...
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Eyes of (sumatran) tiger
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Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) was a French painter who kept her own menagerie of wild animals, including lions.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) was a French painter who was particularly fascinated by lions. Like Rosa Bonheur, he also kept a lion as a “pet” (I don’t know what it is about French artists keeping lions in their houses in the 1800s, but there you go):
https://www.1stdibs.com/art/paintings/animal-paintings/jean-leon-gerome-jean-leon-gerome-lion-aux-aguets-on-watch-french-painting-academicism/id-a_7264062/ Quote:Gérôme had two personal connections with lions, the first was his given names, Jean-Léon; according to 19th century practice, the middle name was the most important, the one used by his family and friends. He even painted two puns on the name, one a wonderfully sketched lion with a strong personality stretched out on a rocky ledge - perhaps at the mouth of a cave - with a heraldic shield placed in the upper right corner. The device in the shield is undecipherable but the motto on the banner underneath is clear: Nominor Leo, Latin for 'My name is lion' (1885, Musée Garret, Vesoul). The other is a depiction of St Jerome asleep in a cave, his head pillowed against the famous lion that he had befriended, also asleep (1877. whereabouts unknown). It is a pity that the painting is lost because the Saint Jerome is one of the very few male nudes painted by Gérôme, an especially fine study of an aged if hardy physique.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
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Just look at this link : https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-on-the-...=Delacroix At the #1404.
Thanks, I hadn’t seen that post. Yes, he painted tigers and other big cats too, though he had a soft spot for lions. The idea of them roaming the deserts captured his imagination, despite this generally not being their natural habitat:
Quote:The lion is on the watch, on a high ledge over some desert place, looking for prey in a vast and arid landscape. He carries a lot of dignity on his taut shoulders: seeming to be both alert and patient, and ready to bound down and away if a prospect comes into sight. It is hardly imaginable that Jean-Leon Gérôme had ever seen a lion on any of his trips through the deserts of North Africa and Asia Minor. The lion lives and hunts in grass plains where he can find grazing game, seldom in a desert or on a desert mountain. Furthermore, the lion had been, in Gérôme's time, long absent from North Africa, persisting only in Sub-Saharan Africa and in one province of north-west India. Nonetheless, Gérôme painted many compositions of lions with desert settings. He was evidently fascinated by the desert lions of his imagination, who lived a romantic life maintained by almost desperate hunting for food and water. (Although there probably were still a few lions in scattered regions in North Africa in the late 1800s.) 
Hu Zaobin (1897-1942) was an artist famous for his tiger portraits.
I find this one, “Victory or Defeat,” to be particularly stunning:  *This image is copyright of its original author
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