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A lion attacking a horse
(c. 1765)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 69.0 × 100.1 cm
- Accession Number
- 2052-4
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1949
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 17th to 18th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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This sensational image of animals engaged in mortal combat was a favourite subject for George Stubbs, one of England’s foremost animal painters throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. His focus on the violent forces of nature had a profound impact on the following generation of Romantic artists. Stubbs often replicated these figures exactly but varied the landscape setting in each work. The landscape was critical to Stubbs as it helped set the tone for his often repeated ‘sublime’ encounter. In this instance, the landscape is not as dark and dramatic as seen in his later works.
- Subjects (general)
- Animals Violence
- Subjects (specific)
- claws (animal components) fighting hooves (animal components) horse (species) lion (species) trees