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Cheval sauvage terrassé par un tigre
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FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Cheval sauvage terrassé par un tigre
lithograph
1828
on Chine collé paper
a very fine, rich and nuanced impression of the first state (of four)
printing with great contrasts and clarity
an extremely rare proof before lettering and before the edges of the subject were squared off
with margins, in good condition
Image 21,5 x 28,5 cm. (8 ½ x 11 1⁄8 in.)
Sheet 27 x 36 cm. (10 5⁄8 x 14 1⁄8 in.)
Cheval sauvage terrassé par un tigre
lithograph
1828
on Chine collé paper
a very fine, rich and nuanced impression of the first state (of four)
printing with great contrasts and clarity
an extremely rare proof before lettering and before the edges of the subject were squared off
with margins, in good condition
Image 21,5 x 28,5 cm. (8 ½ x 11 1⁄8 in.)
Sheet 27 x 36 cm. (10 5⁄8 x 14 1⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern.
Acquired from the above in 1965; then by descent to the present owners.
Acquired from the above in 1965; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. Robaut, L'oeuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix 1813-1863 - peintures, dessins, gravures, lithogravures, Paris, 1885, no. 288, p. 80 (another impression ill.).
L. Delteil & S. Strauber, Delacroix - The Graphic Works - A catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1997, no. 77, pp. 196-197 (another impression ill.).
A. G. Yaffe, Prints of Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, March - May 1977, no. 17, p. 24.
L. Delteil & S. Strauber, Delacroix - The Graphic Works - A catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1997, no. 77, pp. 196-197 (another impression ill.).
A. G. Yaffe, Prints of Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, March - May 1977, no. 17, p. 24.
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