Lions in Art — Page 3

Plaque in the form of a striding lion

Plaque in the form of a striding lion

Plaque in the form of a striding lion

Pendant in the form of a lion's head

Lion Devouring a Horse

Théodore Gericault, 1818

Covered pot

Netsuke of Lion Mask

Designs for the Decoration of Firearms

Nicolas Noël Boutet, ca. 1797–1805

Asia and Africa

Friedrich Elias Meyer, ca. 1750–60

Sugar box

Vienna|Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period, 1720–25

Figure of Bodhisattva Guanyin riding a lion

Design for a Fountain with Two Water-Spouting Lions (recto); Sketch for Triumph of Galatea [?] (verso).

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652–1725

Plate 7: two friezes; at top, an eagle and the head of a lion, at bottom, a lion head and two grotesque heads of men, from 'Friezes, foliage, and grotesques' (Frises, feuillages et grotesques)

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1638–43

Plate with Lion Design

Hercules and the Nemean Lion: Hercules grasps the front right leg of the lion, which lifts its snout upward, in the middle ground Hercules pulls the skin from the lion's corpse, from the series 'The Labors of Hercules'

Antonio Tempesta, 1608

Two Men Fighting a Lion

Judah, from The Twelve Sons of Jacob

Jacques de Gheyn II|Karel van Mander I|Jan Pitten

Ornamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 14 (recto)

Matteo Pagano|Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, 1554

The Fight with the Nemean Lion, from The Labors of Hercules

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1550

Hercules, in profile, killing the Nemean lion with his arm around its neck, from 'The labors of Hercules'

Sebald Beham, 1548

Swiss Dagger with Sheath, Bodkin, and By-Knife

(Design for a Dagger and Sheath)

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1543

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Niccolò Vicentino|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Andrea Andreani, 1540–50

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Samson Killing the Lion

Hans Burgkmair, 1515

Samson Rending the Lion

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1497–98

Dish with Lion

A Lion Confronting a Dragon

Anonymous, Italian, Tuscan, 16th century, ca. 1500–1510

Oven Tile with Samson and the Lion (Based on an Engraving by Master E.S.)

Decorated Roman alphabet

Anonymous, French, 15th century, ca. 1499

"Fable of the Lion and the Hare", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Capital with Samson and an Attendant Fighting a Lion

Lion Mask

Censer with a Lioness Hunting a Boar

Fragmentary bronze statuette of Herakles with lion's skin

Scarab stamp seal

Lekythos

Little Lion Class, early 5th century BCE

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Diosphos Painter, ca. 500 BCE

Gold stater

Terracotta dinos (deep round-bottomed bowl) and holmos (stand)

Scarab Base with Incised Lion and Cobra

Orthostat relief: lion attacking a deer

西周 青銅獣面紋飾|Fitting

Cylinder seal and modern impression: lion and sphinx over an antelope

Naval Standard, Great Britain, from the National Flags series (N195) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

William S. Kimball & Company, 1891

Shah of Persia, from World's Sovereigns series (N34) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1889

The South African Medal, Issued for the Campaigns of 1877–79

William Wyon, 1879

Lions Dancing Among Peonies on Stone Bridge

Unidentified, late 19th century