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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.352
People
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title
Two Lions Resting
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1848
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298477

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, pastel, and graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 27 x 35.7 cm (10 5/8 x 14 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Delacroix to his cousin the baronne Tony de Forget, née Joséphine de Lavalette, Paris; Joseph John Kerrigan; Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, February 17, 1939 ($3,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.352
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alfred Robaut, L'Oeuvre complète de Eugène Delacroix, Chavanay Freres (Paris, France, 1885), no. 1053, repro.
  • Otto Benesch, "The Winthrop Collection: From Neo-Classic to Romanticism; David, Ingres, Géricault", Art News (January 1-14, 1944), vol. 42, no. 16, pp. 9-10, 20-21, 32, repro. p. 21
  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chassériau, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), pg. 10
  • Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugene Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1816-1831, The Clarendon Press (Oxford & New York, 1981), vol. 1 (1981), pg. 35
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 136, repr.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 29, repr. (color)
  • Arlette Sérullaz and Edward Vignot, Le bestiaire d'Eugène Delacroix, Citadelles & Mazenod (Paris, 2008), p. 103 and fig. 77

Exhibition History

  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Delacroix in New England Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/1955 - 11/26/1955
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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