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The painting is signed and dated: J. B. A. George de Hamilton Pinx 1753. This signature suggests an attribution to John Hamilton, an artist active in Vienna in the mid-18th century.
This canvas is one from a pair, entitled A Lion and a Tiger, and A Tigress with her Cubs Threatened by a Crocodile. The designs in these two paintings relate to a pair of paintings, possibly pendants, executed by Peter Paul Rubens in circa 1615. The lion and the tiger in the present canvas are based on details from Neptune and Amphitrite (destroyed in Berlin during World War II).
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