A Lioness and a Caricature of Ingres. Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris). Dimensions: Overall: 7 5/16 x 9 13/16 in. (18.6 x 24.9 cm). Date: 1850s.Like many young artists of his day, Delacroix occasionally took up assignments to supply Parisian journals with caricatures that called for the comical distortion of figures' features or stance. By around 1820, such elements of exaggeration seem to have infiltrated his works, more or less subtly. In some, distinctions between man and beast were intentionally and at times rather brutally obscured, as in this pairing of a pouting lioness with the profile of Delacroix's artistic adversary, the painter Ingres. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.