Le Lion et le tigre, c. 1830

Not on View

Medium

lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 22.6 x 30.5 cm (8 7/8 x 12 in.)

sheet: 30.8 x 45.1 cm (12 1/8 x 17 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, undescribed

Accession Number

1999.111.5

Artists / Makers

Louis-Candide Boulanger (artist) French, 1806 - 1867

Eugène Delacroix (artist after) French, 1798 - 1863

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in image: Louis B; lower right below image: Louis Boulanger del; lower center below image: LE LION ET LE TIGRE; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 2nd state 350/VGH; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: (not deciphered)

Provenance

Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1999.

Associated Names

Trapp, Frank Anderson

Exhibition History

1988: Delacroix and the Romantic Image: Oriental Themes, Wild Beasts, and the Hunt, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, 1988, no cat. no., illustrated p. 57.

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.