Tiger Hunt
by LANCRET, Nicolas, Oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm
This painting is a study for a larger one which belonged to a cycle of eight canvases depicting exotic hunt scenes. The cycle was commissioned for one of the small royal apartment if the castle of Versailles from Jean-Fran�ois de Troy, Fran�ois Boucher, Charles Parrocel, Nicolas Lancret, Jean Baptiste Vanloo and Jean Baptiste Pater. The cycle is now conserved at the Mud�e de Picardie, Amiens.