The Lion Hunt is a genre painting of 1836 by the French artist Horace Vernet.

[1] [2] It depicts a lion hunt in the Sahara.

[3] It reflects the fashionable Orientalism of the nineteenth century.

[4] It was inspired by Vernet's 1833 visit to North Africa in the wake of the French conquest of Algeria.

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