Delacroix loved wild animals. In Paris, he constantly visited the zoo. In the zoo, the artist made a lot of sketches. Then these sketches turned into romantic scenes, where mighty animals seized each other or attacked hunters.
Wild imagination prompted the artist more and more turns of such subjects. These include a panther attacking a horse); a lion torturing a dead Arab; a tiger and a snake. An animal Delacroix observed only in the zoo. Often, he played on themes already developed by other artists.
Especially Delacroix liked lion hunting at Rubens, and he wrote several versions of this story. More peaceful look wild animals on the picture created in 1830 by Delacroix “Tiger cub playing with his mother.”
Related Paintings 
Tiger Cub jugando con su madre – Eugene Delacroix 
The execution of the Doge Marina Falleero by Eugene Delacroix 
Lion devouring a rabbit by Eugene Delacroix 
Sketch for the painting Death of Sardanapal by Eugene Delacroix 
Ourson tigre jouant avec sa mère – Eugene Delacroix 
Lion Hunt by Eugene Delacroix 
The Moroccan, the saddling horse by Eugene Delacroix 
The capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders by Eugene Delacroix
Tiger Cub jugando con su madre – Eugene Delacroix The execution of the Doge Marina Falleero by Eugene Delacroix Lion devouring a rabbit by Eugene Delacroix Sketch for the painting Death of Sardanapal by Eugene Delacroix Ourson tigre jouant avec sa mère – Eugene Delacroix Lion Hunt by Eugene Delacroix The Moroccan, the saddling horse by Eugene Delacroix The capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders by Eugene Delacroix