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FERDINAND-VICTOR-EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Lion dévorant un cheval
lithograph
1844
on Chine collé on heavy wove paper
a fine, dark and rich impression of the fourth state (of five)
published in Les Artistes Contemporaines, Paris, Folio 1, 1846 (Lugt 36b)
with wide margins
some foxing, surface dirt and other defects in the margins
the subject in very good condition
Image 16,8 x 23,5 cm. (634 x 914 in.)
Sheet 31,4 x 44,5 cm. (1238 x 1712 in.)
Provenance
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 13 June 2008, lot 221.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
L. Delteil & S. Strauber, Delacroix - The Graphic Works - A catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1997, no. 126, pp. 310-311 (another impression ill.)
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Auf Stein gezeichnet – Lithographien von Bresdin bis Vuillard, November 2013 - March 2014, no. 37 (ill.), pp. 24, 84.
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