Nude on a Tiger Skin
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James Jebusa Shannon was an Anglo-American painter known primarily for society portraits — polished, formal, well-received by the Royal Academy. This one is in a different register. A pale figure lies across a tiger skin, her body softly modeled against warm, flickering color, with Shannon's brushwork looser here than in his commissioned work. The stripes of the hide echo the curves of the figure, and the whole composition sits in a hazy middle ground between study and finished painting.