Lion Attacking a Horse with Rider (Sketch for The Tiger Hunt)

ca. 1854

Medium: Graphite over tracing
Dimensions: sheet: 21.5 × 19.5 cm (8 7/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of George Dix, B.A. 1934, M.A. 1942
Accession Number: 1977.173.3
Geography: Made in France
Culture: French
Period: 19th century
Classification: Drawings
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Provenance

Atelier Delacroix (?); (Lugt 838 or 838a); unidentified mark "JC"

Bibliography

Christine Poggi et al., French Drawings: Acquisitions, 1970–1984, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984), 38–41, 86, no. 28.

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