The Lion in Love... Lion Amoûreux

by After James Northcote, R. A., Charles Turner

$1,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Rare, coloured issue of this poignant image taken from Aesop's fables. Northcote, who worked as pupil and assistant to Sir Joshua Reynolds for five years from 1771, produced works in a number of genres: portraits, historical and subject pictures, morally instructive scenes and, during the 1790s, animal painting. The present image of the lion a symbol of strength tamed by his love for a beautiful maiden is from Aesop's fables: Once, a Lion once fell in love with a lovely

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