Leopard

In the forest already wrapped in the first shadows of the evening a leopard advances menacingly towards a prey placed beyond the viewer's view. The animal, according to an iconography repeatedly proposed by Ligabue, stretches its body, opens its jaws, raises a paw and curls its tail. At the bottom right appears a skeleton that probably belonged to an unsuspecting native, who dared to venture into the hunting grounds of the feline. In the background, the last rays of the setting sun make the sky rosy. The artist realizes every detail of this painting with painstaking meticulousness.