Lion Defending its Prey

Provenance

(Michael Harvard, London); purchased early 1970s by Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Amherst and Pittsburgh; gift 2004 to NGA.

Lion Defending its Prey

Landseer, Edwin, Sir

c. 1840

Accession Number

2004.166.26

Medium

oil on paper on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 25.1 x 32.4 cm (9 7/8 x 12 3/4 in.) | framed: 42.6 x 54.9 x 4.8 cm (16 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp