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Eugène Delacroix

Tiger Sleeping in the Desert, 1846, printed c. 1870

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Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 9.1 x 13.2 cm (3 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

sheet: 17 x 27 cm (6 11/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 24, State vi/vi

Accession Number

1999.111.13

Artists / Makers

Eugène Delacroix (artist) French, 1798 - 1863

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Eug. Delacroix; lower right in plate: Imp. Delâtre, Paris; by later hand, lower left in graphite: HD 4/72/410/2 V/V

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.

Bibliography

1906: Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

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