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 This exhibition brings together some fifty works from very diverse cultures and periods.

 Its aim is to show through art the very ambivalent relations between men and wild animals. 

Men and wild animals are predators. Evolving in the same ecosystem, they compete at the dawn of civilization for the best place in the food chain. The result is a relationship of violent rivalry in which the man will win it by asserting his complete domination. 

 Man admires, respects and deifies the beasts, but he hunts and slaughters it, or turns it into a luxurious domestic animal. Depending on the society, it lends them protective or destructive virtues. He condescendingly attributes to them the same soul as him (nobility and intelligence) while making them remain the wild beast by excellence who contains all the mysteries and dangers of nature.

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Naseem Hamed for Ring Magazine in 2001.

Nassem Hamed or Prince Naseem is a british boxer. He is known for his very evasive yet explosive style on the ring, but also for his extremly arrogant attitude and his spectacular entrances.

Naseem Hamed’s leopard printed shorts are emblematic of his style. He wears it at mutliples times on the ring.

Naseem Hamed for Ring Magazine in 2001.

Nassem Hamed or Prince Naseem is a british boxer. He is known for his very evasive yet explosive style on the ring, but also for his extremly arrogant attitude and his spectacular entrances.

Naseem Hamed’s leopard printed shorts are emblematic of his style. He wears it at mutliples times on the ring.

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Dagger

second half 17th century

Indian, Deccan

Steel, iron, silver, copper alloy

Met Museum of Art

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Painting from a british painter who’s name I couldn’t find...

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Tiger on the watch

Jean-Léon Gérome (french)

c. 1888

Oil on canva

90,5 x 63,5 cm

Houston Museum of Art

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Crouching tiger

Eugène Delacroix (french)

1839

Pen and brush and iron gall ink

Overall: 5 3/16 x 7 3/8 in. (13.1 x 18.7 cm)

Met Museum of Art

One of Delacroix’s favorite activities was to sketch the lions and tigers in the menagerie at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. This exquisite ink drawing combines the knowledge gained from that exercise with his observations of domestic cats to portray the arched stance of a tiger about to pounce. In addition to the pen, Delacroix employed a brush to convey bolder lines such as the rounded back, crease of the hind leg, and distinctive broad stripes of the animal’s coat. The swirling S-curve of the tail winding around the creature’s leg adds to the coiling potential of the pose.

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Portrait of a young lady with a cheetah. I did’nt find any other information about this painting

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Cuauhxicalli in he shape of a jaguar

Aztec civilisation

Anthropologic Museum of Mexico

A cuauhxicalli or quauhxicalli, meaning "Eagle gourd bowl" in Nahuatl, was an altar-like stone vessel used by the Aztecs to contain human hearts extracted in sacrificial ceremonies. A cuahxicalli would often be decorated with animal motifs, commonly eagles or jaguars. 

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David Ruffin (American singer) phtographed by Jim Britt

1975

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-Maharaja Jagat Singh Hunting

1734-1751

India, Rajasthan, Udaipur School, Jagat Singh reign(1734-1751)

Ink, color, and gold on paper

- Maharana Sangram Singh II of Mewar (r. 1710–34) and Stages a Boar Hunt with Tigers at Sadric. 

1720

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of MewarGum 

Tempera and gold on paper

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Tiger mask

Mexico, Nahua culture

20th century

Painted wood, textile, tooth, hairs 

Musée du Quai Branly

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Tiger

Miroco Machiko

Painting

2013

Unknown dimensions

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Lion sculptures (Basalt) from the city gate of Sam'al of Neo Syro Hittite period

II millenar BC

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Simba, PNL 

2015

captured image from the music video

Simba from the Lion King is kind of the alter ego of N.O.S (one of the two member of PNL)

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La Chasse au Tigre (The Tiger Chase)

Jean Jacques Flipart (French, 1719–1782)

18th century

Etching

50.2 x 36.6 cm

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Limestone statue of a seated lion

Late Classical or Early Hellenistic

ca. 4th century B.C.

Cypriot culture

Limestone

44.5 x 41.9 x 14 cm

Met Museum of Art