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FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Tigre Royal
lithograph
1829-30
on wove paper, without watermark
a fine, rich impression of this large and important print
the third or fourth state (of five)
published by H. Gaugain, Paris, with the blindstamp of the printer and publisher E. Ardit (Lugt 21g)
with blank paper outside the subject on all sides, trimmed just below the address below
a repaired cut along the upper borderline and an associated triangular cut just inside the subject
some pale staining and other minor defects
the sheet thinly backed
Image 32,5 x 46,5 cm. (1234 x 1814 in.)
Sheet 39 x 51 cm. (1538 x 20 in.)
Provenance
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 8 December 2005, lot 848.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to present owners.
Literature
L. Delteil & S. Strauber, Delacroix - The Graphic Works - A catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1997, no. 80, pp. 310-311 (another impression ill.)
Exhibited
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Tierisch! – Tierdarstellungen aus vier Jahrhunderten, March – July 2008 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Auf Stein gezeichnet – Lithographien von Bresdin bis Vuillard, November 2013 – March 2014, no. 35 (ill.), pp. 25, 84.
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