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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.64
People
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title
Tiger Drinking
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1853-1855
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298087

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on tracing paper; verso: traces of brown oil paint above and below tiger and along top of his back
Dimensions
actual: 25.5 x 33.6 cm (10 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.64
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 144, repr.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Clare I. Rogan, Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), no. 20

Exhibition History

  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/15/1998 - 11/01/1998; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 07/17/1999 - 09/26/1999; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 09/30/1999 - 12/10/2000; William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 02/04/2001 - 05/13/2001

Verification Level

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