Lion Devouring a Rabbit

Lion Devouring a Rabbit is an oil painting on canvas executed in 1853 by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Louvre in Paris.^[1]^[2]^[3]

It depicts a lion in a cave or under a rock structure, consuming a captured rabbit.

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Paintings	The Entombment of Christ (1820) The Barque of Dante (1822) Mademoiselle Rose (c. 1820–1824) Head of an Old Greek Woman (1824) Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (c. 1824) The Massacre at Chios (1824) Horse Frightened by a Thunderstorm (c. 1824) Tam O'Shanter (1825) Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826) The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (1826, 1835, 1856) The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero (1826) Louis d'Orléans Showing Off His Mistress (1826) Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter (1826–27) Woman Stroking a Parrot (1827) The Death of Sardanapalus (1827, 1844) Still Life with Lobsters (1827) Cromwell at Windsor Castle (1828) The Murder of the Bishop of Liège (1829) The Battle of Poitiers (1830) Liberty Leading the People (1830) A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother (1830–31) The Battle of Nancy (1831) Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I (1831) The Picador (1832) Arab Rider Charging (1832) The Prisoner of Chillon (1834) Women of Algiers (1834, 1847–1849) The Natchez (1834–35) Christ on the Cross (1835) The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242 (1837) The Kaïd, A Moroccan Chief (1837) Convulsionists of Tangiers (1837–1838) The Death of Ophelia (1838) Cleopatra and the Peasant (1838) Warrior by a Tomb (1838) Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand (1838) Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (1840) The Justice of Trajan (1840) Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (1840) The Shipwreck of Don Juan (1840) The Sultan of Morocco (1845) The Abduction of Rebecca (1846) The Bride of Abydos (pre-1849, 1843–1849) Christ Asleep during the Tempest (c. 1853) Lion Devouring a Rabbit (c. 1855) The Two Foscari (1855) The Lion Hunt (1855) Ovid Among the Scythians (1859, 1862) Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable (1860) Horses Leaving the Sea (1860) Shipwreck on the Coast (1862) Tiger with a Tortoise (1862)
Drawings	Sunset (c. 1850)
People	Charles-François Delacroix (father) Charles-Henri Delacroix (brother) Henriette de Verninac (sister) Jean-François Oeben (grandfather) Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Henri-François Riesener Jean-Henri Riesener Théodore Géricault Richard Parkes Bonington Paul Huet Ary Scheffer Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Museums	Musée national Eugène Delacroix (Paris)
Related	Romantic painting Homage to Delacroix (1864 painting) Delacroix (crater)

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