Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Tigre couché

stamped with the artist's initials (L.838(a)); pencil, pen and black ink and brown wash on paper laid down on paper, unframed, drawn in 1858
8¼ x 12½in. (21 x 31.6cm.)

Provenance

M Bollet, Arras
Bought in 1952 from M. Hein for 330,000F by César de Hauke (inv. no. 150) and thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

A Robaut, L'oeuvre de Delacroix, Paris 1885, no. 1356

Lot Essay

The tiger was said to have been given to King Louis Philippe by the Sultan of Morocco (see Delacroix's letter to Pierret from Morocco, 2 April, 1832)

We are grateful to Professor Lee Johnson for confirming the authenticity of this Lot, on the basis of a photograph.

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