Horse Attacked by a Lion (Episode C)

Horse Attacked by a Lion (Episode C) from 1768 by George Stubbs is one of his celebrated series depicting the primal conflict between predator and prey. The lion-and-horse series was inspired by a classical antique marble and became one of the most powerful images in British Romantic art. Stubbs's equine paintings combine the anatomical precision gained from his seven-year dissection project — published as The Anatomy of the Horse in 1766 — with compositional elegance informed by classical sc...

The dramatic confrontation is rendered with Stubbs's anatomical precision, both animals depicted with scientific accuracy even in this most dramatic and emotional of subjects.