Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion

Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Œuvres d’Eugène Delacroix, 1864, cat. 93. Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Eugène Delacroix, March 6–April 15, 1885, cat. 20. Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints by Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863, March 20–April 20, 1930, cat. 30. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 243. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 186. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Museum of Art, The Horse: Its Significance in Art, April 20–May 21, 1938, cat. 12. New York, M. Knoedler and Company, Gros – Géricault – Delacroix, November 21–December 10, 1938, cat. 49; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, December 15, 1938–January 15, 1939. Portland Museum of Art, Eugène Delacroix, January 15–February 14, 1940, no cat. Arts Club of Chicago, Origins of Modern Art, April 2–30, 1940, cat. 11. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Pendulum Swing from Classic To Romantic in French Painting, January 25–February 21, 1942, no cat. no. Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Nineteenth Century French Painting, January 18–February 20, 1944, cat. 1. New York, Wildenstein & Co., Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863: Loan Exhibition in Aid of the Quaker Emergency Service, October 18–November 18, 1944, cat. 27. Springfield Art Association, Illustration for Dante’s Divine Comedy, April 1945, no. cat. Decatur Art Center, Masterpieces of European and American Art, May 4–25, 1945, cat. 5. New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Delacroix and Renoir, February 16–March 13, 1948, cat. 5. American Federation of Arts, travelling exhibition June 1948–June 1949, no cat. Saginaw Museum, Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 19, 1948–January 9, 1949, cat. 8. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University, A Festival of Fine Arts, February 26–March 10, 1956, cat. 4. Sarasota, Ringling Museum of Art, Palmer Family Collections, February 23–March 24, 1963, cat. 10. Paris, Louvre, Delacroix, Mar. 29-July 23, 2018; New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sep. 13, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 131 (ill). Denver Art Museum, Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism, Mar. 5-May 28, 2023, cat. 14.

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