A lion that has escaped from a circus in Florence picks up a baby in its teeth, but when the baby's mother shouts at it, the lion gives the baby back to the mother unharmed. Watercolour by M. Díez de Bulnes, 1817, after N.A. Monsiau.

  • Monsiaux, Nicolas André, 1754-1837.
Date:
An. 1817
Reference:
3162335i
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Publication/Creation

[Spain?], An. 1817.

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour ; sight 56 x 46.2 cm, sheet 67 x 53.7 cm

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3162335i

Creator/production credits

Possibly by Manuela Díez de Bulnes Gonzalez del Castillo, b. 1784, wife of Antonio Colarte y Caballero, marquis of Pedroso (María Elena del Río Hijas, 'Los Díez de Bulnes: hidalgos originarios de Pembes (Cantabria)', Altamira, revista del centro de estudios montañeses, 2007, LXXII, p. 75)

Reproduction note

After: a painting by Nicolas-André Monsiau or Monsiaux, called Le lion de Florence, exhibited at the Salon in 1801, and acquired in 1983 by the Musée du Louvre. The present painting is in reverse to that by Monsiau: it may be derived from one of the prints that are also reversed to the painting as mentioned in the Louvre catalogue: "gravure au burin (inversée) par J.F. Cazenave (1811) ; estampes populaires (inversées) de Pellerin à Epinal (1814) et Hurez à Cambrai (1815-1817)"

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