Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003208Studies of Lions
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt suppl. 838a]. Rene Paul Huet (died 1928), by 1908 [according to Delteil 1908]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 28, 1946, lot 132. Sold by Marcel Guiot, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1950.
Exhibition history
Tübingen, Germany, Kunsthalle Tübingen, "Ingres und Delacroix: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen," September 12-October 28, 1986, cat. 152; traveled to Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, November 6-December 21, 1986. Frankfurt, Germany, Städelsches Kunstinstitut and the Stadtische Galerie, "Delacroix: Works on Paper," September 23, 1987-January 4, 1988. Karlsruhe, Germany, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, "Eugène Delacroix," November 1, 2003-February 1, 2004, p. 190, cat. 78 (ill.).
Publications
Loys Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur-Illustre, III (Paris, 1908), no. 79. Price, The Drawings of Delacroix (Los Angeles, 1961) (ill.). Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time, III (New York, 1962), no. 741. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E4. Melody Peters, Drawing: Space, Form and Expression (Upper Saddle River, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix / French, 1798-1863
- Date
- c. 1829
- Medium
- Graphite on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 22.7 × 34.2 cm (8 15/16 × 13 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- David Adler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1950.1411
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