{"id":1976481,"date":"2025-08-23T19:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1976481"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:04:20","slug":"fight-and-fawn-jealous-lioness-1885-1890-by-paul-friedrich-meyerheim-art-arthistory-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fight-and-fawn-jealous-lioness-1885-1890-by-paul-friedrich-meyerheim-art-arthistory-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight and Fawn | Jealous Lioness (1885-1890) by Paul Friedrich Meyerheim #art #arthistory #painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fTbO6jmH-T4?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Paul Friedrich Meyerheim\u2019s Jealous Lioness (1885\u20131890) stages a scene of circus spectacle: a costumed woman reaches her hand toward a caged lion, while beside him a lioness snarls and bares her teeth. At first glance, the image plays into the melodrama suggested by the title, An animal tamer winning the lion\u2019s affection while the lioness reacts with envy. The performer stands poised and confident, parrot on her shoulder, the picture of human mastery over beasts. But beneath the theatrical surface, the bars of the cage and the lions\u2019 strained gestures betray a harsher reality.<\/p>\n<p>Seen through the lens of the cruelty circuses inflicted on animals, the painting becomes less about jealousy and more about survival under trauma. The lion\u2019s outstretched paw looks less like devotion than a desperate grasp for gentleness in a life of confinement, while the lioness\u2019s bared teeth feel less like envy than a defensive shield against further harm. Both responses\u2014one reaching out, the other lashing out\u2014speak to the same wound. What Meyerheim may have intended as drama instead reads, to modern eyes, as a study in how captivity fractures even the most powerful creatures into different forms of longing and resistance.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fTbO6jmH-T4\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Friedrich Meyerheim\u2019s Jealous Lioness (1885\u20131890) stages a scene of circus spectacle: a costumed woman reaches her hand toward a caged lion, while beside him a lioness snarls and bares her teeth. At first glance, the image plays into the melodrama suggested by the title, An animal tamer winning the lion\u2019s affection while the lioness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1976482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755975859_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}