Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Three heads of lions

Details

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
Three heads of lions
pen and brown ink
4.3/8 x 6½ in. (111 x 167 mm.)

Provenance

The artist's studio stamp (L. 838a); Paris, 17-29 February 1864, possibly part of lots 487 (79 drawings of lions) or 496 (27 drawings of lions) .
With Thomas Agnew and Sons.

Lot Essay

Close to a drawing in the Louvre datable 1825-6, M. Sérullaz, Dessins d'Eugène Delacroix, Paris, 1984, I, no. 1079. Both drawings were probably included in Alfred Robaut's monograph of 1885 under nos. 1845 or 1858, described as a group of drawings of lions and other big cats.

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