The Sultan's Tiger
Artist: Benjamin-Constant (Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant) (French, 1845–1902)
Original Dimensions: 80 3/4" x 48 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (not listed) "This painting appears to have been inspired by Victor Hugo’s 1827 poem “La Douleur du pacha” (The Pasha’s Grief). In the poem, a fictional Ottoman potentate forsakes his responsibilities, including his domains and his subjects, owing to implacable sadness: “What’s wrong with this pasha, whom war is calling / And who, sad and dreamy, cries like a woman? . . . / His Nubian tiger has died.”" - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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