1965.269: An Arab on Horseback Attacked by a Lion
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1965.269
- People
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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
- Title
- An Arab on Horseback Attacked by a Lion
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1849
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/296719
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on tracing paper, darkened
- Dimensions
- actual: 46 x 30.5 cm (18 1/8 x 12 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1965
- Object Number
- 1965.269
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 684, fig. 358
- Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 29
- Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane A. Wakeham, Mendelowitz's Guide to Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1982)
- Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 137, repr.
- Jeffrey Fontana, Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Necoclassical Drawing, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist no. 15, fig. 11
- Klaus Schrenk, ed., Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe/Kehrer Verlag (Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, 2003), cat. no. 182, repr.
- André du Bouchet, La peinture n'a jamais existé: écrits sur l'art 1949-1999, Le Bruit du Temps (Paris, 2017), pp. 192-193, repr. p. 193
Exhibition History
- Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
- Untitled exhibition of French drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/08/1943 - 11/21/1943
- Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
- Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
- Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/07/1999 - 10/31/1999
- Eugène Delacroix, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 11/01/2003 - 02/01/2004
Verification Level
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