- Title:
Horse Attacked by a Lion (Episode C)
- Former Title(s):
Lion Attacking a Horse [1963, Painting in England 1700-1850: collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- between 1768 and 1769
- Medium:
- beeswax and oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- 10 1/8 × 11 5/8 inches (25.7 × 29.5 cm), Overall: 15 3/8 × 16 3/4 × 1 7/8 inches (39.1 × 42.5 × 4.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2006.14.1
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B2006.14.1FR
- Subject Terms:
- danger | horse (animal) | light | lion | octagon | panel (wood) | replicas | series (groups) | suffering | violence
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21165
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A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of the collection of sporting pictures : 11 June 1915, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 11, 1915, p. 29, Lot 411, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
H. F. Constantine, Lord Rockingham and Stubbs: Some New Documents, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 95, No. 604, July 1953, p. 237, N1 B87+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, p. 37, no. 18, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Frederick J. Cummings, Catalogue of the exhibition : Romantic art in Britain : Painting and drawings, 1760-1860, Detroit and Philadelphia, 1968, pp. 51-53, N6766 C8 + oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Deuchar, Sporting art in eighteenth-century England, a social and political history , Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988, pp. 151-3, N8250 D48 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 72-73, no. 71, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, p. 97, no. 65, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, painter : catalogue raisonne, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 296-7, no. 113, NJ18 St915 A12 +E44 2007 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Walter Gilbey, Life of George Stubbs, R.A., Vinton, London, 1898, p. 157, 168, no. 20, no. 5, NJ18 St915 G55 (HAAS) [ORBIS]
Venetia Morrison, The art of George Stubbs, Wellfleet Press, Seacaucus, N.J., 1989, pp. 109-118, Unnumbered plate, NJ18 St915 M67 1989+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert Michael Neuman, Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, Pearson, Boston, 2013, p. 401, N6415.B3 N48 2013 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 174 (v. 1), no. 334, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 74 (v. 1), no. 263, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Constance-Anne Parker, Mr. Stubbs the horse painter, J. A. Allen, London, 1971, pp. 72-82, ND497.S93 P37 + Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sir David Piper, The genius of British painting, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1975, p. 178, ND461 G45 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Walter Shaw Sparrow, George Stubbs as a Painter of Big Game, Connoisseur, v. 96, no. 408, August 1935, p. 65, N1 C75+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, George Stubbs : 'The Lion and the Horse' Theme, Burlington Magazine, vol. 107, February 1965, p. 81, fig. 44 appendix no. 1, N1 B87 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, George Stubbs: The lion and horse theme, The Lion and Horse Theme , Burlington Magazine, Vol. 107, No.743, February 1965, pp. 81-87, app. no. 4, N1 B87+ (YCBA) Available online on JSTOR [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, pp. 46-7 (v. 1), no. 175, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]