{"product_id":"daniel-in-the-lions-den-briton-riviere","title":"Daniel in the Lions' Den — Briton Rivière","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-size:1.12rem;line-height:1.55;margin:0 0 1.3em;color:#2b2723\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLook at the lions. Not one of them is looking at him.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size:.78rem;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8a8177;margin:0 0 .8em\"\u003eThe story\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.7;margin:0 0 1em;color:#3a3530\"\u003eRivière painted animals for a living and he was better at it than almost anyone in Victorian England — he went to the zoo the way other painters went to the life room. That expertise is the reason this picture works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.7;margin:0 0 1em;color:#3a3530\"\u003eHe could have painted lions cowering, or snarling, or miraculously tamed. Instead he painted them bored. They pace, they lie down, they look at the wall. The miracle is not that they have been subdued. It is that they have simply lost interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.7;margin:0 0 1em;color:#3a3530\"\u003eDaniel stands with his back to us and his hands behind him, facing away from the only light in the room. You never see his face. There are bones on the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.7;margin:0 0 1em;color:#3a3530\"\u003eIts formal title is Daniel's Answer to the King, and it hangs in Manchester. Almost nobody calls it that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-left:3px solid #c9a227;padding:.2em 0 .2em 1em;margin:1.6em 0;color:#5a5248\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeep and dark with one bar of light. Hangs beautifully on a pale wall in a room with warm lamps.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size:.78rem;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8a8177;margin:0 0 .7em\"\u003eWhat arrives\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin:0 0 1.4em;padding-left:1.1em;line-height:1.7\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on canvas and set in a wooden frame — not a poster, not paper behind glass.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade to order after you buy it, then shipped worldwide.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBriton Rivière, 1890. Public domain — free to reproduce, which is the only reason a canvas like this can cost what it does.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpscaled from the museum scan before printing — sharpened, with no detail invented or added.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size:.78rem;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8a8177;margin:0 0 .7em\"\u003eGood to know\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height:1.65;color:#5a5248;margin:0 0 1.4em\"\u003eScreens are backlit and canvas is not. Colours read deeper and softer on the wall than they do here. Sizes are the framed dimensions. This painting is wider than it is tall, and the sizes below match its proportions almost exactly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;padding:.75em 1em;background:#f6f2e8;border-radius:4px;font-size:.92rem;color:#5a5248\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2b2723\"\u003eBuy any two prints, the third is half price.\u003c\/strong\u003e Applied automatically at checkout — no code needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:2.6em 0 0;padding:26px 22px 24px;background:#F5F0E8;border:1px solid #E6E1DA;border-radius:18px\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"margin:0 0 .55em\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/paintings-with-a-story\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-size:.7rem;letter-spacing:.16em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;color:#8A6D1F;background:#F3EBD9;border:1px solid #E4D8BC;border-radius:999px;padding:.42em .9em\"\u003ePaintings with a Story · see the set\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Fraunces,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.35rem;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:-.02em;line-height:1.2;margin:0 0 .4em;color:#2B2723\"\u003eFinish the wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"line-height:1.6;color:#5A5248;margin:0 0 1.3em;max-width:60ch;font-size:.96rem\"\u003eFour pictures worth owning for what happened in them. 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