Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849, Swiss, active in Britain (from 1800)
Title:
Group of Whelps Bred between a Lion and a Tigress
Date:
1825
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 x 12 inches (35.6 x 30.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black paint, upper left: "Bred at Windsor Octr 1824. | Painted when six-months old"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.7
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
zoo | menagerie | cage | science | husbandry | hybridity | animal art | lions | tigers
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
J. L. Agasse (Museum of Art and History, Geneva, 1988-10-20 - 1989-01-22)

J. L. Agasse (Tate Britain, 1989-02-15 - 1989-04-02)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 12-13, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Jacques Laurent Agasse : The Tate Gallery London, Tate Publishing, London, 1988, pp. 150-1, no. 57, NJ18 .Ag2 T27 + Oversize (YCBA)

J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 52, 110, no. 102, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Eighteenth and nineteenth century drawings and paintings : 7 April 1965, Sotheby's, April 7, 1965, p. 39, lot 188, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:520