Tiger with a Tortoise

Tiger with a Tortoise or Tiger Playing with a Tortoise is an 1862 oil on canvas painting by Eugène Delacroix. It was sold by Christie's in New York for $9,875,000 in May 2018.[1][2]

Tiger with a Tortoise (1862) by Eugène Delacroix

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Eugène Delacroix
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) 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 (1826–1830) Woman Stroking a Parrot (1827) The Death of Sardanapalus (1827, 1844) Cromwell at Windsor Castle (1828) The Murder of the Bishop of Liège (1829) Liberty Leading the People (1830) A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother (1830–1831) The Battle of Nancy (1831) Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I (1831) The Picador (1832) Arab Rider Charging (1832) 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) Warrior by a Tomb (1838) Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand (1838) Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (1840) Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (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) 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	Homage to Delacroix (1864 Henri Fantin-Latour painting)

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