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Wounded Lioness
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: Eug. Delacroix
Provenance
Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings and Prints by Eugène Delacroix, 1798–1863, March 20–April 20, 1930, no. 32. Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Romantic Art at the Time of Beethoven, March 14–April 28, 1970, cat. 4.
Publications
The Art Collector 4, 16 (1893) p. 247. “Art Institute of Chicago: II – Modern Paintings: The Henry Field Collection,” Art Amateur 21, 1 (1894), p. 19. “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of The Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37, no. 16. “Art Institute of Chicago,” American Art Annual (1898), p. 140. Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: IV. The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Brush & Pencil 2, 1 (1898), p. 7. “Illustration,” Brush & Pencil 2, 1 (1898), no page, ill. “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 16. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 159, no. 116. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy, vol. 2 (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 712, no. 16. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 164, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 176, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 169, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 113, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 117, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 117, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 23, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 23, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 23, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 134, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 150. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 122. Luigina Rossi Bortolato and Pierre Georges, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Delacroix (Paris: Flammarion, 1975), p. 136, under no. 905, fig. 905a. John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), p. 100. Yves Sjöberg, Delacroix, 1798–1863: chevaux et félins: aquarelles, dessins, peintures (Paris: Bibliothèque de l’image, 2011), p. 34 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre Andrieu (French, 1821-1892)
- Date
- c. 1850
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 33.4 × 56.3 cm (13 1/8 × 22 1/8 in.); Framed: 62.6 × 85.1 × 10.8 cm (24 5/8 × 33 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Henry Field Memorial collection
- Accession no.
- 1894.1048
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