George Stubbs - Horse Devoured by a Lion - 1763
The painting is one of a pair with Horse Devoured by a Lion, acquired by Tate in 1976. They were almost certainly the pictures exhibited as companions at the Society of Artists in 1763. The pair appear to be Stubbs's first fully developed essay on the 'Lion and Horse' theme and the earliest to be exhibited. Horace Walpole (1717-97), the great eighteenth-century writer and critic, was so impressed by the picture that he composed a poem 'On seeing the celebrated Startled Horse, painted by the inimitable Mr. Stubbs' which paints a vivid word-picture of the frightened horse, 'rooted' to the spot by 'apprehension, horror, hatred, fear', with 'ears shot forward' and 'stiff projected mane'. The pictures make narrative as well as visual sense as a pair, for they show the first and last episodes in the fatal attack by the lion on the horse - Diane Perkins March 2001 - Tate Gallery
Size: 3200px × 2120px
Photo credit: © steeve-x-art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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