Drama in the Indian Forests and Grasslands, a painting interpretation of a bronze sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye. I was asked to take inspiration from the sculpture that Barye produced in 1840 for a client. The Mughal empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, to northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, probably at its height in the 17th century the Mughal empire was vast and powerful. In the scene, a tigress attacks the men atop an Asian elephant. Part of a routine patrol the men stumble upon her and her nearly full grown daughter, a violent altercation ensues. A moment lost in history. Hopefully, I’ve brought the intensity of the moment to the viewer. Andrew Ellis Artist
A bit of fancy but not by much. Pressured tigers did this in the days of English tiger hunts.
John Seerey-Lester painted similar scenes as a subgenre that sold well for him.