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Horse Frightened by a Lion
Artist: George Stubbs (1724 - 1806)
Location: Tate
Date: 1763
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 705 x 1038 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £75,000 (Total: £462,864; tax remission)
Vendor: Deborah Gage
Review number: 4070 (1994)
Provenance:
Private collection; with Deborah Gage Works of Art.
Description:
'The Horse Frightened by a Lion is perhaps not everyone's instinctive idea of a horse painting by Stubbs. This horse - not just frightened, but in mortal fear - is very different from the well-groomed creatures in most of Stubbs's racing scenes. Stubbs invites us instead to imagine that the horse and lion exist in a timeless state of nature, and in an uncivilised landscape; in this state, the horse is the natural prey of the lion, and the only law is the law of nature: the survival of the stronger.' Extract of an article in the 1994 Review written by Judy Egerton.
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