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Large oil on canvas depicting a buffalo attacked by a tiger at the edge of a waterhole, after the painting by Charles Verlat * "Buffalo surprised by a tiger" (1853) preserved at the Musée des Augustins (Fine Arts) of Toulouse, dated 1862 of XIXth century.
This painting is in good condition, in its own juice. Charles Verlat's original painting measures 300 cm x 200 cm and is on display at the Toulouse Museum. This is a copy made in 1862, date of beginning and end back on the chassis (June 1, 1862 - June 29, 1862).
A note: restores on the canvas in different places, some accidents on the frame, see photos.
is a Belgian painter and engraver. A student at the Antwerp Academy, Charles Verlat is a pupil of Nicaise de Keyser. Around 1849, he moved to Paris where he worked under the direction of Ary Scheffer. In 1855, he won a medal at the Paris World Fair for his "Tiger attacking a herd of buffaloes". During his stay in Paris, from 1850 to 1868, he attended Hippolyte Flandrin and Thomas Couture and befriended Gustave Courbet. His Madonna, presented at the Salon of 1867, earned him the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honor. Invited by the Grand Duke Charles-Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, he was appointed director of the Weimar School of Fine Arts in 1869. Shortly after his return to Antwerp in 1875, he undertook a trip to the Middle East in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, where he remains nearly two years and from which he brings back about fifty paintings. Back in Antwerp in May 1877, he was appointed professor of painting at the Antwerp Academy. He became director in 1885.
