Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris)

A lioness attacking a crocodile

Details

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris)
A lioness attacking a crocodile
signed 'Eug Delacroix'
black lead on light brown paper
6 7/8 x 8½ in. (174 x 221 mm.)

Provenance

Dr Fritz Nathan and Dr Peter Nathan, Zurich.
with The Lefevre Gallery, London.

Lot Essay

A painting by Delacroix of closely comparable composition showing A lion devouring an alligator is in the Louvre (L. Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A critical catalogue, Oxford, 1986, no. 200, pl. 26).

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